9-letter words containing y, a, r, i
- gray iron — pig iron or cast iron having much of its carbon in the form of graphite and exhibiting a gray fracture.
- gray pine — jack pine.
- graylings — Plural form of grayling.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- gynarchic — relating to gynarchy or rule by women
- gyrations — Plural form of gyration.
- hagiarchy — hagiocracy.
- hail mary — Ave Maria.
- hairdryer — (chiefly UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.
- hairspray — a liquid in an aerosol or other spray container, for holding the hair in place.
- hairstyle — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- heritably — In a heritable manner.
- hierarchy — any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
- himyarite — one of an ancient people of southern Arabia speaking a Semitic language.
- hippiatry — the treatment of disease in horses
- holidayer — vacationer.
- homiliary — a collection of homilies.
- hooraying — Present participle of hooray.
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.
- hyder ali — 1722–82, Islamic prince and military leader of India: ruler of Mysore 1759–82.
- hydracids — Plural form of hydracid.
- hydraemia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hydramide — (organic compound) One of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes.
- hydramine — an amine derived from a glycol in which one hydroxyl is replaced by an amino group.
- hydrastis — goldenseal (def 2).
- hydrating — Present participle of hydrate.
- hydration — any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water. In the case of some hydrates, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O, the water is loosely held and is easily lost on heating; in others, as sulfuric acid, SO 3 ⋅H 2 O, or H 2 SO 4 , it is strongly held as water of constitution.
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydrazide — (chemistry) any compound derived from an oxoacid by replacing the hydroxide group with -NHNH2 or derived forms -NRNR2.
- hydrazine — Also called diamine. a colorless, oily, fuming liquid, N 2 H 4 , that is a weak base in solution and forms a large number of salts resembling ammonium salts: used chiefly as a reducing agent and a jet-propulsion fuel.
- hydrazoic — noting or pertaining to hydrazoic acid; triazoic.
- hyperacid — Highly acidic.
- hyperarid — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
- hyperemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hyperopia — a condition of the eye in which parallel rays are focused behind the retina, distant objects being seen more distinctly than near ones; farsightedness (opposed to myopia).
- hyperoxia — (pathology) A condition caused by an excess of oxygen in tissues and organs.
- hypobaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity lower than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hyperbaric (def 1).
- hyrcanian — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- iatrogeny — a disease caused by medical intervention or treatment
- iatrology — Medical science.
- idiocracy — Government that is based upon abstract theory.
- idiocrasy — idiosyncrasy.
- idiolatry — Autolatry, or self worship.
- idolatory — Misspelling of idolatry.
- imaginary — existing only in the imagination or fancy; not real; fancied: an imaginary illness; the imaginary animals in the stories of Dr. Seuss.
- imbracery — embracery.
- immorally — violating moral principles; not conforming to the patterns of conduct usually accepted or established as consistent with principles of personal and social ethics.