10-letter words containing a, h, i, m, s
- graphemics — the study of writing systems and of their relation to speech.
- hacktivism — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- haematosis — Alternative form of hematosis.
- haemolysin — Alternative spelling of hemolysin.
- haemolysis — Alternative spelling of hemolysis.
- hailstorms — Plural form of hailstorm.
- half-smile — a smile that is uncertain or short-lived
- ham-fisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hammerings — a series of punishments or beatings
- hamstrings — Plural form of hamstring.
- hard times — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- harmonicas — Plural form of harmonica.
- harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmonised — Simple past tense and past participle of harmonise.
- harmoniser — (British spelling) alternative spelling of harmonizer.
- harmonises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harmonise.
- harmonists — Plural form of harmonist.
- harmoniums — Plural form of harmonium.
- harmonizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harmonize.
- haustorium — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- heathenism — a belief or practice of heathens; idolatry.
- heidenstam — Verner von [ver-nuh r fawn] /ˈvɛr nər fɔn/ (Show IPA), 1859–1940, Swedish poet and novelist: Nobel Prize 1916.
- hemostasis — the stoppage of bleeding.
- hemostatic — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- herbariums — Plural form of herbarium.
- heresimach — a person engaged in combating heresy and heretics.
- hermitages — Plural form of hermitage.
- hetmanship — the position of a hetman
- hexosamine — any hexose derivative in which a hydroxyl group is replaced by an amino group.
- hidalgoism — the position or practice of a hidalgo
- hierograms — Plural form of hierogram.
- high beams — vehicle's strongest headlights
- hippomanes — (formerly) a substance found on the forehead of a newborn foal or obtained from a mare in foal, thought to act as an aphrodisiac
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- histamines — Plural form of histamine.
- histaminic — Biochemistry, Physiology. a heterocyclic amine, C 5 H 9 N 3 , released by mast cells when tissue is injured or in allergic and inflammatory reactions, causing dilation of small blood vessels and smooth muscle contraction.
- histograms — Plural form of histogram.
- homoiousia — The doctrine of the homoiousians.
- homoousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence or substance of the Father and the Son is the same (opposed to Heteroousian).
- homosocial — Pertaining to homosociality, to social interaction with the same sex.
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- humanising — Present participle of humanise.
- humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humanities — all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.
- humidistat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- humiliates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humiliate.
- humoralism — a theory of the composition and workings of the human body, based on the idea that it was filled with four basic substances, or humours, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.