12-letter words containing y, n
- half-monthly — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- halfway line — a line across a sports field, such as a football pitch, that divides the playing area into two equal areas and is equidistant between the two goals
- handypersons — Plural form of handyperson.
- hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
- hangtown fry — a type of omelet to which fried oysters, bacon, and sometimes onions are added.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- hard done by — If you feel hard done by, you feel that you have not been treated fairly.
- hardy annual — a plant that can withstand freezing temperatures and which completes its life cycle within a year
- harmonically — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- harmoniously — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- headstrongly — In a headstrong manner.
- hearteningly — In a heartening way; cheeringly.
- heavy oxygen — either of the two stable isotopes of oxygen having mass numbers of 17 and 18.
- heavy-handed — oppressive; harsh: a heavy-handed master.
- hedge laying — the art or practice of making or maintaining a hedge by cutting branches partway through, laying them horizontally, and pegging them in position in order to create a strong thick hedge
- hells canyon — a canyon on the Snake River in S Idaho and along the Oregon border: 125 miles (210 km) long with a maximum depth of about 7900 feet (2408 meters).
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- henley-shirt — a short- or long-sleeved pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton, with a round neckband and an often covered neckline placket.
- henry howard — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- henry tanner — Henry Ossawa [os-uh-wuh] /ˈɒs ə wə/ (Show IPA), 1859–1937, U.S. painter, in France after 1891.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- hesitatingly — In a hesitating manner.
- heterochrony — a genetic shift in timing of the development of a tissue or anatomical part, or in the onset of a physiological process, relative to an ancestor.
- heterodyning — Present participle of heterodyne.
- heterogynous — having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.
- heterokaryon — a cell containing two or more nuclei of differing genetic constitutions.
- heteronymous — of, relating to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
- hexacarbonyl — (inorganic chemistry) Any compound having six carbonyl groups.
- hickory pine — bristlecone pine.
- high and dry — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- high country — a mountainous area below the timberline; a forested mountain area.
- high density — floppy disk
- high-density — having a high concentration: entering a high-density market with a new product; high-density lipoprotein.
- hill country — hilly area
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- hollywoodian — a person who works for the motion-picture industry located in Hollywood, Calif.
- holy trinity — Trinity (def 1).
- home and dry — If you say that someone is, in British English home and dry, or in American English home free, you mean that they have been successful or that they are certain to be successful.
- home country — the country a person comes from
- hominy grits — grits (def 1).
- homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
- homodynamous — (biology) Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy.
- homonymously — in a homonymous manner
- honey badger — ratel.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honey fungus — an edible basidiomycetous fungus, Armillaria mellea, having a yellow-spotted cap and wrinkled stems, parasitic on the roots of woody plants, which it may kill by root rot. It spreads by thin black underground strands
- honey locust — a thorny North American tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, of the legume family, having small, compound leaves and pods with a sweet pulp.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.