9-letter words containing hy
- diphysite — a person who believes that in Christ two distinct natures, the human and the divine, existed together
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- dysthymia — depression; despondency or a tendency to be despondent.
- dysthymic — A person diagnosed with dysthymia, or dysthymic depression.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- ectophyte — a parasitic plant growing on an animal or another plant.
- emphysema — A condition in which the air sacs of the lungs are damaged and enlarged, causing breathlessness.
- end rhyme — poetry: rhyme at end of a line
- endophyte — A plant, especially a fungus, that lives inside another plant.
- enhydrite — a type of mineral containing water
- entelechy — The realization of potential.
- enthymeme — An argument in which one premise is not explicitly stated.
- entophyte — endophyte
- epigraphy — The study and interpretation of ancient inscriptions.
- epiphyses — Plural form of epiphysis.
- epiphysis — The end part of a long bone, initially growing separately from the shaft.
- epiphytes — Plural form of epiphyte.
- epiphytic — Of or pertaining to an epiphyte.
- eriophyid — a type of microscopic mite that causes plant damage
- ethylated — Simple past tense and past participle of ethylate.
- ethylenic — (organic chemistry) Containing ethylene or an ethylene derivative.
- eurhythmy — rhythmic movement
- euthyroid — having a thyroid gland that functions normally
- exophytic — (pathology) In pathology, pertaining to growth of a tumor outward.
- exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
- eye rhyme — a rhyme involving words that are similar in spelling but not in sound, such as stone and none
- fishyback — a cargo supply chain involving container transfer from lorry to ship
- flourishy — containing flourishes; fancy; like a flourish in nature
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geophytes — Plural form of geophyte.
- geophytic — Relating to geophytes.
- hagiarchy — hagiocracy.
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- helophyte — any perennial marsh plant that bears its overwintering buds in the mud below the surface
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hierarchy — any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
- holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- homophyly — a resemblance due to common ancestry.
- hyacinths — Plural form of hyacinth.
- hyalinize — to become hyaline.
- hyalomere — the transparent part of a blood platelet, surrounding the chromomere.
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
- hybernate — Obsolete spelling of hibernate.
- hybridise — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
- hybridism — Also, hybridity [hahy-brid-i-tee] /haɪˈbrɪd ɪ ti/ (Show IPA). the quality or condition of being hybrid.
- hybridist — someone who hybridizes or cross-breeds (animals or plants)
- hybridity — Also, hybridity [hahy-brid-i-tee] /haɪˈbrɪd ɪ ti/ (Show IPA). the quality or condition of being hybrid.
- hybridize — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.