10-letter words starting with hy
- hypolithic — growing beneath rocks.
- hypolydian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the diatonic scale from D to D
- hypometria — Dysmetria in which the patient tends to undershoot the intended target.
- hypometric — Smaller than normally measured.
- hypomnesia — Deficiency of the memory.
- hypomotile — Less than usually motile.
- hyponymous — a term that denotes a subcategory of a more general class: “Chair” and “table” are hyponyms of “furniture.”. Compare superordinate (def 4).
- hypophonia — an abnormally weak voice due to lack of coordination of the speech muscles.
- hypophonic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hypophonia.
- hypophoria — Physical misalignment of the two eyes so that one eye is set lower in the head than the other.
- hypophyses — Plural form of hypophysis.
- hypophysis — pituitary gland.
- hypopiesis — abnormally low arterial blood pressure; hypotension.
- 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
- hysteresis — the lag in response exhibited by a body in reacting to changes in the forces, especially magnetic forces, affecting it. Compare magnetic hysteresis.
- hysteretic — the lag in response exhibited by a body in reacting to changes in the forces, especially magnetic forces, affecting it. Compare magnetic hysteresis.
- hysterical — of, relating to, or characterized by hysteria.
- hystericky — prone to or characterized by hysteria
- hysteritis — an inflammation of the uterus
- hystorical — Nonstandard spelling of historical.
- hystricine — Like or pertaining to porcupines.