10-letter words containing y, o
- hypoplasia — Pathology. abnormal deficiency of cells or structural elements.
- hypopraxia — abnormally decreased activity; listlessness.
- hypoptilum — (ornithology) An aftershaft.
- hyporchema — a lively choral ode sung in ancient Greece in honor of Apollo or Dionysus.
- hypostases — Metaphysics. something that stands under and supports; foundation. the underlying or essential part of anything as distinguished from attributes; substance, essence, or essential principle.
- hypostasis — Metaphysics. something that stands under and supports; foundation. the underlying or essential part of anything as distinguished from attributes; substance, essence, or essential principle.
- hypostatic — of or relating to a hypostasis; fundamental.
- hypostress — the stress which is caused by boredom or lack of motivation
- hypotactic — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- hypotenuse — the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- hypothenar — the fleshly prominence on the palm at the base of the little finger.
- hypotheses — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
- hypothesis — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
- hypothetic — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.
- hypothymia — a state of depression
- hypotrophy — A degeneration in the functioning of an organ due to the loss of cells.
- hypoxaemia — Alternative spelling of hypoxemia.
- hypoxaemic — Alternative form of hypoxemic.
- hypozeugma — the use of a succession of subjects with a single predicate.
- hypozeuxis — the use of a series of parallel clauses, each of which has a subject and predicate, as in “I came, I saw, I conquered.”.
- hypsometer — thermobarometer (def 1).
- hypsometry — vertical control in mapping; the establishment of elevations or altitudes.
- hypsophobe — a person who suffers from hypsophobia
- hypsophyll — a leaf located beneath a spore-bearing leaf
- hyson skin — the inferior leaves of a Chinese green tea
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- ice hockey — a game played on ice between two teams of six skaters each, the object being to score goals by shooting a puck into the opponents' cage using a stick with a wooden blade set at an obtuse angle to the shaft.
- ichinomiya — a city on central Honshu, in central Japan.
- ichthyoids — Plural form of ichthyoid.
- ichthyosis — a hereditary skin disease in which the epidermis continuously flakes off in large scales or plates.
- ichthyotic — a hereditary skin disease in which the epidermis continuously flakes off in large scales or plates.
- iconically — of, relating to, or characteristic of an icon.
- iconolatry — the worship or adoration of icons.
- iconomachy — opposition to the worship of images or icons
- iconometry — measurement by an iconometer
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- idiography — The study of individuals.
- ignobility — of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base: his ignoble purposes.
- ignominity — (nonstandard) Alternative form of ignominy.
- ignorantly — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- illocality — Want of locality or place.
- illusorily — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
- immobility — the quality or condition of being immobile or irremovable.
- immoderacy — immoderation.
- immodestly — not modest in conduct, utterance, etc.; indecent; shameless.
- immorality — immoral quality, character, or conduct; wickedness; evilness.
- immortally — not mortal; not liable or subject to death; undying: our immortal souls.
- immotility — A lack of motility (the inability to move).
- immunology — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.