15-letter words that end in y
- homeostatically — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- hootchy-kootchy — cooch.
- horse artillery — cavalry equipped with artillery
- horse-and-buggy — of or relating to the last few generations preceding the invention of the automobile: vivid recollections of horse-and-buggy days.
- horticulturally — With respect to horticulture.
- hostess trolley — a trolley, usually wheeled, on which to keep food warm until the hostess is ready to serve it
- hull efficiency — the ratio of the quantity of work required to tow a certain hull at a given speed to that required to drive it with a certain propeller: used in propeller design.
- human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
- hybrid antibody — a synthetic antibody that is able to combine with two different antigens
- hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
- hydropathically — in a hydropathic manner; in a manner relating to hydropathy
- hydrostatically — In a hydrostatic manner.
- hygroscopically — In a hygroscopic way.
- hypercritically — In a hypercritical manner.
- hyperfemininity — the quality of being feminine; womanliness.
- hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
- hyperreactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- hypnotisability — Alternative spelling of hypnotizability.
- hypnotizability — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hyposensitivity — low or diminished sensitivity to stimulation.
- identifiability — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- identity theory — a form of materialism which holds mental states to be identical with certain states of the brain and so to have no separate existence, but regards this identity as contingent so that mentalistic and physicalistic language are not held to be synonymous
- ideographically — an ideogram.
- immeasurability — Immeasurableness.
- immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
- immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
- immunohistology — the microscopic study of tissues with the aid of antibodies that bind to tissue components and reveal their presence.
- immunologically — the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- impenetrability — the state or quality of being impenetrable.
- imperial valley — an irrigated agricultural region in SE California, adjacent to Mexico, formerly a part of the Colorado Desert: it is largely below sea level and contains the Salton Sink.
- imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
- imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
- in a family way — pregnant; with child
- in its entirety — completely, wholly
- in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
- in short supply — If something is in short supply, there is very little of it available and it is difficult to find or obtain.
- in the majority — the largest group
- in the same way — similarly
- in/into a tizzy — If you get in a tizzy or into a tizzy, you get excited, worried, or nervous about something, especially something that is not important.
- in/into ecstasy — If you are in ecstasy about something, you are very excited about it. If you go into ecstasies, you become very excited.
- inaccessibility — not accessible; unapproachable.
- inadmissibility — not admissible; not allowable: Such evidence would be inadmissible in any court.
- inapplicability — (uncountable) The state of being inapplicable.
- inappropriately — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- inauthentically — not authentic: inauthentic Indian jewelry mass-produced in a factory.
- incalculability — The quality or state of being incalculable.
- inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
- incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.