10-letter words containing a, e, c, h, m
- hemianopic — having or relating to hemianopia
- hemicrania — pain in one side of the head.
- hemocyanin — a blue, copper-containing respiratory pigment in the plasma of many invertebrates.
- hemostatic — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- henchwoman — Feminine of henchman.
- heresimach — a person engaged in combating heresy and heretics.
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- hermetical — made airtight by fusion or sealing.
- hermitical — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- hieromancy — divination through studying objects offered in sacrifice
- home match — a match played on a team's home ground
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- homocercal — having an equally divided tail, characteristic of adult modern bony fishes.
- horse clam — gaper.
- human race — humanity, humans as a species
- humectants — Plural form of humectant.
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- hypermanic — pertaining to or affected by mania.
- hyporchema — a lively choral ode sung in ancient Greece in honor of Apollo or Dionysus.
- hypoxaemic — Alternative form of hypoxemic.
- ice hammer — a form of ice axe in which one part of the head is shaped like a hammer
- impeaching — Present participle of impeach.
- jackhammer — a portable drill operated by compressed air and used to drill rock, break up pavement, etc.
- kampuchean — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- kodachrome — (lowercase) a positive color transparency.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- leuchaemia — leukaemia
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- lumachella — Alternative form of lumachel.
- lunch meat — Lunch meat is meat that you eat in a sandwich or salad, and that is usually cold and either sliced or formed into rolls.
- mach scale — a scale that measures how much deceit and manipulation one will approve or condone in order to achieve some end.
- machinable — (of a material) capable of being cut or shaped with machine tools. Compare free-machining.
- machinated — Simple past tense and past participle of machinate.
- machinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of machinate.
- machinegun — Alternative spelling of machine gun.
- machineman — a worker in charge of a machine
- maconochie — a tinned stew of meat and vegetables given to soldiers during World War 1
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- maestricht — Maastricht.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- malachites — Plural form of malachite.
- man crèche — an area of a department store set aside to provide entertainment for men while their partners shop
- manchester — a city in NW England: connected with the Mersey estuary by a ship canal (35½ mi. [57 km] long).
- manchineel — a tropical American tree or shrub, Hippomane mancinella, of the spurge family, having a milky, highly caustic, poisonous sap.
- manichaean — Also, Manichee [man-i-kee] /ˈmæn ɪˌki/ (Show IPA). an adherent of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.
- manichaeus — Mani
- manicheism — Also, Manichee [man-i-kee] /ˈmæn ɪˌki/ (Show IPA). an adherent of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.
- march hare — a hare during its breeding season in March, noted for its wild and excitable behaviour (esp in the phrase mad as a March hare)