9-letter words containing y, e, n, a
- graystone — (uncountable) A type of gray, volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron.
- green bay — an arm of Lake Michigan, in NE Wisconsin. 120 miles (195 km) long.
- greenaway — Kate (Catherine) 1846–1901, English painter and author and illustrator of children's books.
- greenways — Plural form of greenway.
- guanylate — (biochemistry) any salt or ester of guanylic acid; the salts are used as flavour enhancers.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- gynaeceum — (among the ancient Greeks) the part of a dwelling used by women.
- gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- hackneyed — let out, employed, or done for hire.
- halfpenny — a bronze coin of the United Kingdom, equal to half a penny: use phased out in 1984.
- hanefiyeh — (in the courtyard of a mosque) a fountain for ritual washing.
- hansberry — Lorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.
- happen by — chance upon
- happyness — Misspelling of happiness.
- healingly — in a healing manner, intended to heal
- heathenry — The state of being heathen.
- heavy ion — the nucleus of a heavy element.
- hedyphane — a white or yellow mineral with elongated crystals similar to mimetite, chiefly found in Sweden
- hemingway — Ernest (Miller) 1899–1961, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist: Nobel Prize 1954.
- 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.”.
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- honey ant — any of several ants, especially of the genus Myrmecocystus, that feed on honeydew or nectar and store the excess juices in the bodies of certain worker ants.
- honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- hornyhead — species of fish
- hyalinize — to become hyaline.
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
- hybernate — Obsolete spelling of hibernate.
- hydramine — an amine derived from a glycol in which one hydroxyl is replaced by an amino group.
- hydrangea — any shrub belonging to the genus Hydrangea, of the saxifrage family, several species of which are cultivated for their large, showy flower clusters of white, pink, or blue.
- 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.
- hydrazone — any of a class of compounds containing the group >C=NNH 2 .
- hydrovane — a vane on a seaplane conferring stability on water (a sponson) or facilitating take off (a hydrofoil)
- hyenalike — Resembling a hyena or some aspect of one.
- hymenaean — someone who adheres to the hymenaean belief that there will be no future resurrection
- hymeneals — (plurale tantum) Nuptials.
- hymettian — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens. 3370 feet (1027 meters).
- hyper-man — A browser available with Epoch giving hypertext access to the Unix manual.
- hypernova — (astronomy) The gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole.
- hyperpnea — abnormally deep or rapid respiration.
- hyphenate — to join by a hyphen.
- hypopneas — Plural form of hypopnea.
- hypopnoea — Alternative spelling of hypopnea.
- iatrogeny — a disease caused by medical intervention or treatment
- immanency — remaining within; indwelling; inherent.
- imre nagy — Imre [im-re] /ˈɪm rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1896–1958, Hungarian political leader: premier 1953–55, 1956.
- ineffably — incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy.