10-letter words containing y, n
- gynephobia — an abnormal fear of women.
- gyniatrics — the branch of medicine dealing with the treatment of women's diseases
- gyniolatry — an extreme form of love and attachment to women
- gynocratic — Pertaining to government by women.
- gynophilic — Woman-loving.
- gynophobia — Extreme or irrational fear of women or of the female.
- gynophobic — relating to a dread or hatred of women
- gynophores — Plural form of gynophore.
- gynostemia — the united stamens and pistil of an orchid.
- gyrational — Of, pertaining to, or caused by gyration.
- gyrfalcons — Plural form of gyrfalcon.
- hackneying — Present participle of hackney.
- hackneyman — a man who rents out carriages and horses
- haemolysin — Alternative spelling of hemolysin.
- halcyonian — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- hand-carry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.
- hand-spray — an attachment to a shower, sink unit, etc, that is not fixed in place but can instead be moved in order to aid washing
- handsomely — in a handsome manner; pleasingly; successfully.
- handy-andy — a handyman.
- handy-pack — a pack of a product that is useful or convenient in some way, because, for example, it is easy to transport, or because it contains a variety of flavours, colours, etc
- handywoman — Female equivalent of handyman.
- handywomen — Plural form of handywoman.
- hang heavy — to pass tediously; drag
- hangingfly — a small, long-legged scorpionfly of the family Bittacidae, resembling the crane fly but having four wings rather than two and hanging from leaves or twigs by the front or middle legs while using the hind legs to seize prey, mostly small flies.
- hanky-pank — unethical behavior; deceit: When the bank teller bought an expensive car and house, they suspected there might be some hanky-panky going on.
- hanya holm — Hanya [hahn-ye] /ˌhɑn yɛ/ (Show IPA), 1895?–1992, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and teacher; born in Germany.
- hard candy — candy, often fruit flavored, made by boiling together sugar and corn syrup.
- hard money — (in the US) money given directly to a candidate in an election to assist his or her campaign
- hary janos — an opera (1926) by Zoltán Kodály.
- hauntingly — remaining in the consciousness; not quickly forgotten: haunting music; haunting memories.
- hdr energy — hot dry rock energy; energy extracted from hot rocks below the earth's surface by pumping water around a circuit in the hot region and back to the surface
- head money — a tax of so much per head or person.
- heavy rain — torrential rainfall
- hemelytron — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- hemikaryon — a haploid nucleus.
- hemocyanin — a blue, copper-containing respiratory pigment in the plasma of many invertebrates.
- hemolysins — Plural form of hemolysin.
- henpeckery — the state of being harassed or tormented through henpecking
- henry dale — Sir Henry Hallett [hal-it] /ˈhæl ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1875–1968, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1936.
- henry ford — Elizabeth Bloomer ("Betty") 1918–2011, U.S. First Lady 1974–77 (wife of Gerald R. Ford).
- henry knox — (William) Frank(lin) 1874–1944, U.S. publisher and government official.
- henry vane — Sir Henry (Sir Harry Vane) 1613–62, British statesman and author.
- henry viii — ("Defender of the Faith") 1491–1547, king of England 1509–47 (son of Henry VII).
- herniotomy — correction of a hernia by a cutting procedure.
- hesitantly — hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.
- heterodyne — noting or pertaining to a method of changing the frequency of an incoming radio signal by adding it to a signal generated within the receiver to produce fluctuations or beats of a frequency equal to the difference between the two signals.
- heterogeny — the condition or state of being heterogenous
- heterogony — the alternation of dioecious and hermaphroditic individuals in successive generations, as in certain nematodes.
- heteronomy — the condition of being under the domination of an outside authority, either human or divine.
- heteronyms — Plural form of heteronym.