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10-letter words containing y, e, a, r, h

  • hierophany — A physical manifestation of the holy or sacred, serving as a spiritual eidolon for emulation or worship.
  • holy bread — bread used in a Eucharistic service, both before and after consecration.
  • holy water — water blessed by a priest.
  • honey bear — a kinkajou.
  • honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.
  • hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
  • hydra code — (humour, programming)   Code that cannot be fixed because each time a bug is remove, two new bugs grow in its place. Named after the many-headed Hydra of Greek mythology.
  • hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
  • hydrangeas — Plural form of hydrangea.
  • hydrastine — an alkaloid, C 21 H 21 NO 6 , that is extracted from the roots of goldenseal and forms prismatic crystals: used as an astringent and to inhibit uterine bleeding.
  • hydrazides — Plural form of hydrazide.
  • hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
  • hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
  • hydrolases — Plural form of hydrolase.
  • hydrophane — a partly translucent variety of opal, which becomes more translucent or transparent when immersed in water.
  • hydroplane — a seaplane.
  • hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
  • hydrotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a hydranth.
  • hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
  • hypaethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
  • hypaethron — a part of a building or court which is open to the sky
  • hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
  • hyperaemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
  • hyperalert — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
  • hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
  • hyperaphia — abnormal sensitivity to touch.
  • hyperaware — having knowledge; conscious; cognizant: aware of danger.
  • hyperbaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity greater than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hypobaric.
  • hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
  • hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
  • hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
  • hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
  • hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
  • hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
  • hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
  • hypergraph — (mathematics) A generalization of a graph, in which edges can connect any number of vertices.
  • hyperlapse — Lb photography A form of time-lapse photography where the camera is gradually moved across a long distance, such as down a highway, and a frame is captured at each new position.
  • hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
  • hypermania — excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze: The country has a mania for soccer.
  • hypermanic — pertaining to or affected by mania.
  • hypermedia — hypertext
  • hypernovae — Plural form of hypernova.
  • hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
  • hyperplane — a subspace of a vector space that has dimension one less than the dimension of the vector space.
  • hyperpnoea — abnormally deep or rapid respiration.
  • hyperspace — a Euclidean space of dimension greater than three.
  • hypersparc — (processor)   The successor to the SuperSPARC processor, based on the SPARC ISA. The HyperSPARC has smaller caches than the SuperSPARC: 8kb on-chip and 256kb off-chip (compared with 36kb and 1Mb). The HyperSPARC's memory management is optimised for more efficient out-of-cache addressing which means quicker access to external (slower, cheaper) memory.
  • hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
  • hyphenator — One who, or that which, hyphenates.
  • hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
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