10-letter words containing y, s
- harm's way — danger; a dangerous situation: to get out of harm's way during a storm.
- harmlessly — In a harmless manner.
- hary janos — an opera (1926) by Zoltán Kodály.
- hastefully — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hattersley — Roy (Sydney George), Baron Hattersley of Sparkbrook. born 1932, British Labour politician; deputy leader of the Labour Party (1983–92); shadow home secretary (1980–83; 1987–92)
- hawk's-eye — a dark-blue chatoyant quartz formed by the silicification of crocidolite, used for ornamental purposes. Compare tiger's-eye (def 1).
- headlessly — In a headless way.
- heavy spar — barite.
- heedlessly — careless; thoughtless; unmindful: Heedless of the danger, he returned to the burning building to save his dog.
- helplessly — unable to help oneself; weak or dependent: a helpless invalid.
- hematocyst — a cyst containing blood.
- hemicycles — Plural form of hemicycle.
- hemizygous — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- hemolysins — Plural form of hemolysin.
- hemoptysis — the expectoration of blood or bloody mucus.
- hesitantly — hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined.
- hesitatory — Hesitating.
- heterocyst — one of the enlarged nitrogen-fixing cells occurring along the filaments in some blue-green algae.
- heteronyms — Plural form of heteronym.
- hexagynous — (of a plant) having six pistils
- hey presto — magician's conjuring words
- hieronymus — Eusebius [yoo-see-bee-uh s] /yuˈsi bi əs/ (Show IPA), Jerome, Saint.
- high style — the most up-to-date, elegant, or exclusive fashion, especially in clothing.
- high-style — of or relating to style, fashion, or design that is the most up-to-date and, often, most costly
- hinayanist — a Buddhist of the Hinayana school.
- hippolytus — Also, Hippolytos [hi-pol-i-tuh s, -tos] /hɪˈpɒl ɪ təs, -ˌtɒs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. the son of Theseus who was falsely accused by his stepmother, Phaedra, of raping her after he had rejected her advances and who was killed by Poseidon in response to the plea of Theseus.
- histiocyte — A stationary phagocytic cell present in connective tissue.
- histolysis — disintegration or dissolution of organic tissues.
- hla system — human leucocyte antigen system; a group of the most important antigens responsible for tissue compatibility, together with the genes that encode them. For tissue and organ transplantation to be successful there needs to be a minimum number of HLA differences between the donor's and recipient's tissue
- hobbyhorse — a stick with a horse's head, or a rocking horse, ridden by children.
- hollyhocks — Plural form of hollyhock.
- holy cross — Mount of the, a peak in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Range: snow-filled, cross-shaped crevasses. 14,005 feet (4269 meters).
- holy ghost — the third person of the Trinity.
- holy grass — any of several fragrant grasses of the genus Hierochloë, especially H. odorata, the vanilla grass.
- holy moses — expressing surprise or shock
- holy synod — the governing council of an autocephalous church, composed of bishops and presided over by the patriarch or another prelate.
- 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.
- homoblasty — the state of being homoblastic
- 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.
- homozygous — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- honeycombs — Plural form of honeycomb.
- honeymoons — Plural form of honeymoon.
- hopelessly — In a way that shows or causes despair.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- housewifey — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a housewife.
- 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).