10-letter words containing hy
- head rhyme — beginning rhyme.
- heliophyte — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
- heterarchy — (uncountable) The rule of an alien; rule from without; government by an extraterritorial power.
- hexahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) hexahydroxy.
- holography — the process or technique of making holograms.
- holophytic — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- 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).
- 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.
- horography — the art of constructing time-keeping instruments such as watches and clocks
- hy antigen — an antigen encoded by a gene on the Y (male) chromosome, active in the development of male structures.
- hyacinthin — phenylacetaldehyde.
- hyacinthus — a youth loved but accidentally killed by Apollo: from the youth's blood sprang the hyacinth.
- hyalinised — to become hyaline.
- hyalinized — to become hyaline.
- 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.
- hybrid car — vehicle with combined power source
- hybrid tea — a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.
- hybridised — Simple past tense and past participle of hybridise.
- hybridized — Simple past tense and past participle of hybridize.
- hybridizer — One who hybridizes.
- hybridizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hybridize.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- hycanthone — A particular schistosomicide, a metabolite of lucanthone.
- hydathodes — Plural form of hydathode.
- hydra code — (humour, programming) Code that cannot be fixed because each time a bug is remove, two new bugs grow in its place. Named after the many-headed Hydra of Greek mythology.
- hydragogue — causing the discharge of watery fluid, as from the bowels.
- hydrangeas — Plural form of hydrangea.
- hydrastine — an alkaloid, C 21 H 21 NO 6 , that is extracted from the roots of goldenseal and forms prismatic crystals: used as an astringent and to inhibit uterine bleeding.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydrazides — Plural form of hydrazide.
- hydrazoate — a salt of hydrazoic acid; azide.
- hydrically — in a hydric manner; in a manner using water or moisture
- hydriodate — (obsolete, inorganic chemistry) iodide.
- hydriodide — (chemistry) A compound of hydriodic acid with a base.
- hydroceles — Plural form of hydrocele.
- hydrochore — a plant that disperses seeds through water
- hydrocoral — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
- hydrocrack — to crack (petroleum or the like) in the presence of hydrogen.
- hydrofoils — Plural form of hydrofoil.
- 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.
- hydroiodic — (chemistry) Composed of hydrogen and iodine.
- hydrolases — Plural form of hydrolase.
- hydrolized — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrolize.
- hydrologic — the science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
- hydrolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrolyse.