9-letter words containing y, a
- haymaking — The cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals.
- haymarket — a famous London market 1644–1830.
- haystacks — Plural form of haystack.
- healingly — in a healing manner, intended to heal
- healthily — possessing or enjoying good health or a sound and vigorous mentality: a healthy body; a healthy mind.
- heartedly — having a specified kind of heart (now used only in combination): hardhearted; sad-hearted.
- heathenry — The state of being heathen.
- heavy ion — the nucleus of a heavy element.
- heavy mud — a dense substance made of a mixture of the mineral barite and water that is thickened with polymers
- heavy oil — a hydrocarbon mixture, heavier than water, distilled from coal tar
- heavy-set — Someone who is heavy-set has a large solid body.
- hedyphane — a white or yellow mineral with elongated crystals similar to mimetite, chiefly found in Sweden
- helically — pertaining to or having the form of a helix; spiral.
- hemelytra — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- hemingway — Ernest (Miller) 1899–1961, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist: Nobel Prize 1954.
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
- hen party — a party or gathering for women only.
- hendiadys — a figure in which a complex idea is expressed by two words connected by a copulative conjunction: “to look with eyes and envy” instead of “with envious eyes.”.
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- heptapody — a verse with seven metrical feet
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- heritably — In a heritable manner.
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesychast — one of a sect of mystics that originated in the 14th century among the monks on Mt. Athos, Greece.
- hexastyle — having six columns, as a portico or the facade of a classical temple.
- heyerdahl — Thor [too r] /tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1914–2002, Norwegian ethnologist and author.
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- hierarchy — any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
- highdaddy — a highboy having no drawers in the supporting frame.
- hill myna — an Asian bird of the genus Gracula, of the starling family Sturnidae, especially G. religiosa, that has glossy black plumage and yellow neck wattles and is easily tamed and taught to mimic speech.
- himalayan — the, a mountain range extending about 1500 miles (2400 km) along the border between India and Tibet. Highest peak, Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet (8848 meters).
- himalayas — the, a mountain range extending about 1500 miles (2400 km) along the border between India and Tibet. Highest peak, Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet (8848 meters).
- himyarite — one of an ancient people of southern Arabia speaking a Semitic language.
- hippiatry — the treatment of disease in horses
- hippolyta — a queen of the Amazons, variously said to have been killed by Hercules or to have been conquered and married by Theseus.
- hold sway — have influence
- holidayed — Simple past tense and past participle of holiday.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- holly oak — holm oak.
- holy lamb — paschal lamb (def 4).
- holy land — Palestine (def 1).
- holy mary — Christianity: mother of Jesus
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- holy year — a jubilee year.
- homestays — Plural form of homestay.
- homiliary — a collection of homilies.
- homoallyl — (organic chemistry, often in combination) the univalent radical CH2=CH-CH2-CH2-.