6-letter words containing y, h
- homely — lacking in physical attractiveness; not beautiful; unattractive: a homely child.
- homeys — Plural form of homey.
- homily — a sermon, usually on a Biblical topic and usually of a nondoctrinal nature.
- hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- honeys — Plural form of honey.
- honkey — honky.
- hookey — unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky): On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go fishing.
- hooley — (Ireland) A party; an evening of traditional music and dance.
- hoopty — (slang) an old, worn-out car.
- hooray — joy
- hooyah — (US, military) Official battle yell of the US Navy.
- horary — pertaining to an hour; indicating the hours: the horary circle.
- hornby — Nick. born 1958, British writer; his books include the memoir Fever Pitch (1992; filmed 1997) and the bestselling novels About a Boy (1998; filmed 2002), How To Be Good (2001), and Juliet, Naked (2009)
- horney — Karen, 1885–1952, U.S. psychiatrist and author, born in Germany.
- horsey — of, relating to, or characteristic of a horse.
- horthy — Miklós von Nagybánya [mik-lohsh fawn nod-yuh-bah-nyo] /ˈmɪk loʊʃ fɔn ˈnɒd yəˌbɑ nyɒ/ (Show IPA), 1863–1957, Hungarian admiral: regent of Hungary 1920–44.
- hostly — of or proper to a host: the hostly qualities of consideration and generosity.
- hostry — an inn or lodging house, hostelry
- hotkey — an assigned key or sequence of keys programmed to execute a command or perform a specific task in a software application: On Windows computers, the hotkey Ctrl+S can be used to quickly save a file.
- hourly — of, pertaining to, occurring, or done each successive hour: hourly news reports.
- housey — Resembling house music.
- hoyden — a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
- hoying — Present participle of hoy.
- hrozny — Friedrich [German free-drikh] /German ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), or Bedřich [Czech be-drzhikh] /Czech ˈbɛ drʒɪx/ (Show IPA), 1879–1952, Czech archaeologist and orientalist.
- hryvna — The basic monetary unit of Ukraine, equal to 100 kopiykas.
- hubbly — of uneven surface; rough: hubbly ice; a hubbly road.
- hugely — extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent: a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream.
- humbly — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humify — Convert (plant remains) into humus.
- humpty — a low padded seat; pouffe
- humusy — (of soil) rich in humus
- hungry — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hunkey — (US, pejorative) A Hungarian (or, more generally, eastern European) labourer.
- hurley — the game of hurling.
- hurray — to shout “hurrah.”.
- huxley — Aldous (Leonard) [awl-duh s] /ˈɔl dəs/ (Show IPA), 1894–1963, English novelist, essayist, and critic.
- hyades — Astronomy. a group of stars comprising a moving cluster in the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the approach of rain when they rose with the sun.
- hyaena — a doglike carnivore of the family Hyaenidae, of Africa, southwestern Asia, and south central Asia, having a coarse coat, a sloping back, and large teeth and feeding chiefly on carrion, often in packs.
- hyalin — Also, hyalin, H04/H0454500 hahy-uh-lin, ˈhaɪ ə lɪn. Biochemistry. a horny substance found in hydatid cysts, closely resembling chitin. a structureless, transparent substance found in cartilage, the eye, etc., resulting from the pathological degeneration of tissue.
- hyalo- — of, relating to, or resembling glass
- hybrid — the offspring of two animals or plants of different breeds, varieties, species, or genera, especially as produced through human manipulation for specific genetic characteristics.
- hybris — hubris.
- hydras — Plural form of hydra.
- hydria — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a large water jar
- hydric — of, relating to, or adapted to a wet or moist environment.
- hydro- — indicating or denoting water, liquid, or fluid
- hydroa — any skin condition characterized by red vesicular areas.
- hydron — (chemistry) any hydrogen cation.
- hydros — Plural form of hydro.
- hydrus — a constellation near the S celestial pole lying close to Eridanus and Tucana and containing part of the Small Magellanic cloud