9-letter words containing a, s, h, r, m
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handsomer — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- hard mass — Jewelry. a hard glass used for imitating gemstones.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- harmonies — Plural form of harmony.
- harmonise — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmonist — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
- hash mark — Informal. a service stripe. the symbol #.
- hawksmoor — Nicholas, 1661–1736, English architect.
- haymakers — Plural form of haymaker.
- heartsome — giving cheer, spirit, or courage: a heartsome wine.
- herbalism — The study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, now especially as a form of alternative medicine.
- hetaerism — concubinage.
- hetairism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- hexagrams — Plural form of hexagram.
- hiroshima — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: first military use of atomic bomb August 6, 1945.
- histogram — a graph of a frequency distribution in which rectangles with bases on the horizontal axis are given widths equal to the class intervals and heights equal to the corresponding frequencies.
- holograms — Plural form of hologram.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- hormisdas — Saint, died a.d. 523, pope 514–523.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horsemeat — The flesh of a horse as food.
- hydrosoma — hydrosome.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- maharajas — Plural form of maharaja.
- maharanis — Plural form of maharani.
- maharishi — a teacher of spiritual and mystical knowledge; religious sage: often used as an honorary title.
- maksoorah — (in a mosque) a screen or partition enclosing an area for prayer or a tomb.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- marathons — Plural form of marathon.
- mariachis — Plural form of mariachi.
- marrakesh — a city in W Morocco.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- marsh gas — a gaseous decomposition product of organic matter, consisting primarily of methane.
- marsh hen — any of various rails or raillike birds.
- marsh tit — a small European songbird, Parus palustris, with a black head and greyish-brown body: family Paridae (tits)
- marshaled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshaler — (computing) A mechanism for marshalling data.
- marshalls — Plural form of marshall.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- marshland — a region, area, or district characterized by marshes, swamps, bogs, or the like.
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- marshwort — A small, white-flowered plant, of the genus Apium, that grows in marshy habitats.
- martyrish — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- mathworks — The MathWorks, Inc.
- mayorship — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.