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10-letter words containing y, o, g

  • heterogamy — heterogamous state.
  • heterogeny — the condition or state of being heterogenous
  • heterogony — the alternation of dioecious and hermaphroditic individuals in successive generations, as in certain nematodes.
  • heterology — Biology. the lack of correspondence of apparently similar organic structures as the result of unlike origins of constituent parts.
  • hexagynous — (of a plant) having six pistils
  • hieroglyph — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
  • hippogryph — Alternative spelling of hippogriff.
  • hippophagy — the practice of eating horseflesh.
  • hobblingly — in a hobbling manner
  • holidaying — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
  • holography — the process or technique of making holograms.
  • holy ghost — the third person of the Trinity.
  • holy grail — grail (def 1).
  • holy grass — any of several fragrant grasses of the genus Hierochloë, especially H. odorata, the vanilla grass.
  • homography — The state or quality of being spelt homographically; the state or quality of existing as homographs.
  • homozygote — an organism with identical pairs of genes with respect to any given pair of hereditary characters, and therefore breeding true for that character.
  • homozygous — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
  • honeyguide — any of a family (Indicatoridae) of small, heavily built, drab-colored piciform birds of Africa, Asia, and the East Indies: they are said to lead people or animals to bees' nests in order to eat the grubs and wax discarded by the people, etc. when they take the honeycombs
  • horny frog — horned frog.
  • horography — the art of constructing time-keeping instruments such as watches and clocks
  • horrifying — to cause to feel horror; strike with horror: The accident horrified us all.
  • hu yaobang — 1915–89, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party 1981–87.
  • hyalograph — an instrument used in hyalography.
  • hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
  • hydrogenic — (chemistry) hydrogen-like.
  • hydrograph — a graph of the water level or rate of flow of a body of water as a function of time, showing the seasonal change.
  • hydrologic — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
  • hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
  • hygiaphone — a glass screen through which an employee may speak to members of the public, eg at a ticket office
  • hygrochasy — the opening of a fruit or flower caused by water or moisture
  • hygrograph — a self-recording hygrometer.
  • hygrometer — any instrument for measuring the water-vapor content of the atmosphere.
  • hygrometry — the branch of physics that deals with the measurement of the humidity of air and gases.
  • hygrophobe — a plant that grows best with little or no moisture
  • hygrophyte — a plant that thrives in wet or very moist ground.
  • hygroscope — an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
  • hygroscopy — The ability of a substance to attract and hold water molecules from the surrounding environment.
  • hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
  • hypnagogia — (medicine) A condition characterized by dreamlike auditory, visual, or tactile sensations when half-awake.
  • hypnagogic — of or relating to drowsiness.
  • hypnogenic — of or relating to the induction of sleep
  • hypnogogic — Alternative spelling of hypnagogic.
  • hypnograph — an instrument that measures activities of the human body during sleep.
  • hypogenous — growing beneath, or on the undersurface, as fungi on leaves.
  • hypogeusia — a disease characterized by a decreased ability to taste and, sometimes, to smell: associated with a zinc deficiency
  • hypogynous — situated on the receptacle beneath the pistil and free of the ovary, as stamens, petals, or sepals.
  • hypozeugma — the use of a succession of subjects with a single predicate.
  • ideography — the use of ideograms.
  • idiography — The study of individuals.
  • ignobility — of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base: his ignoble purposes.
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