10-letter words containing y, o
- holy water — water blessed by a priest.
- holystoned — Simple past tense and past participle of holystone.
- holystones — Plural form of holystone.
- home study — instruction in a subject given by mail and addressed to a student's home.
- homebuyers — Plural form of homebuyer.
- homeopathy — the method of treating disease by drugs, given in minute doses, that would produce in a healthy person symptoms similar to those of the disease (opposed to allopathy).
- homeotypic — of or relating to the second division in meiosis.
- homoblasty — the state of being homoblastic
- homochromy — a form of camouflage or protective colouring in animals that makes an individual visually become part of the whole group or landscape
- homocyclic — of or noting a cyclic compound having atoms of only one element, usually carbon, in the ring (contrasted with heterocyclic).
- homography — The state or quality of being spelt homographically; the state or quality of existing as homographs.
- homomorphy — (biology) similarity of form; resemblance in external character or in geometric ground form.
- homonymity — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air; a homophone (def 1).
- homonymous — of the nature of homonyms; having the same name.
- homostyled — (of a plant) having styles of the same form or length in all flowers.
- 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.
- honey bear — a kinkajou.
- honeyberry — genip (defs 2, 3).
- honeybunch — honey (def 6, 7).
- honeybunny — A term of endearment; honey, sweetheart.
- honeycombs — Plural form of honeycomb.
- honeyeater — An Australasian songbird with a long brushlike tongue for feeding on nectar.
- 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
- honeymonth — a couple's honeymoon or their first month of marriage
- honeymoons — Plural form of honeymoon.
- honky-tonk — a cheap, noisy, and garish nightclub or dance hall.
- honorarily — given for honor only, without the usual requirements, duties, privileges, emoluments, etc.: The university presented the new governor with an honorary degree.
- honourably — (British) In a honourable manner.
- hootenanny — a social gathering or informal concert featuring folk singing and, sometimes, dancing.
- hopelessly — In a way that shows or causes despair.
- hormonally — In a hormonal way.
- horn poppy — a European plant, Glaucium flavum, of the poppy family, having yellow flowers, naturalized along sandy shores in eastern North America.
- 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.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- housewifey — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a housewife.
- hoydenhood — the condition of a rude, ill-bred or boisterous and noisy girl or woman, or a tomboy
- hu yaobang — 1915–89, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party 1981–87.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
- humorously — characterized by humor; funny; comical: a humorous anecdote.
- humouredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) In the manner of a specified kind of humour. See good-humouredly, bad-humouredly, ill-humouredly.
- hunky-dory — about as well as one could wish or expect; satisfactory; fine; OK.
- hush money — a bribe to keep someone silent about something, especially to keep the receiver from exposing a scandal.
- hyalograph — an instrument used in hyalography.
- hyalophane — a variety of orthoclase in which some of the potassium is replaced by barium.
- hyaloplasm — ground substance.
- hyaluronic — Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.