9-letter words containing a, t, h, e, m
- ethmoidal — Ethmoid.
- exanthema — A skin rash accompanying a disease or fever.
- exanthems — Plural form of exanthem.
- forthcame — Simple past form of forthcome.
- gothamite — a journalistic nickname for New York City.
- grahamite — an asphaltite with a pitch-black luster.
- haematein — a dark purple water-insoluble crystalline substance obtained from logwood and used as an indicator and biological stain. Formula: C16H12O6
- haematite — (chiefly UK) alternative spelling of hematite.
- haematoid — resembling blood
- haematoma — Alternative form of hematoma.
- haemocyte — Alternative spelling of hemocyte.
- haemostat — A clamp used in surgery to close the severed end of a blood vessel to stop bleeding.
- half term — a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- half-term — Half-term is a short holiday in the middle of a school term.
- half-time — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- hamfatter — a second-rate or ineffectual actor
- hamfisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hammertoe — a clawlike deformity of a toe, usually the second or third, in which there is a permanent flexion of the second and third joints.
- hampstead — a former borough of London, England, now part of Camden.
- hang time — the length of time that a football remains in the air after being kicked.
- haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
- hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hardiment — hardihood.
- harlemite — a native or inhabitant of Harlem.
- harmonite — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmotome — a zeolite mineral related to stilbite, occurring in twinned crystals.
- hashemite — (mineral) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing barium, chromium, oxygen, and sulfur.
- hashimite — a member of any Arab dynasty in the Middle East founded by Husein ibn-Ali or his descendants.
- hatchment — a square tablet, set diagonally, bearing the coat of arms of a deceased person.
- hate mail — letters, telegrams, etc., that express prejudice or disagreement in abusive or threatening terms.
- haymarket — a famous London market 1644–1830.
- hazemeter — transmissometer.
- head smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by a dark-brown, powdery mass of spores replacing the affected seed heads, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Sorosporium, Sphacelotheca, and Ustilago.
- head them — to toss the coins in a game of two-up
- healthism — The use of propaganda and coercion (as by government or advertising) to impose established norms of health.
- heart cam — Machinery. a cam with a single lobe having the general shape of a heart.
- heartsome — giving cheer, spirit, or courage: a heartsome wine.
- heartworm — a parasitic nematode, Dirofilaria immitis, transmitted by mosquito and invading the heart and pulmonary arteries of dogs, wolves, and foxes throughout its range in tropical, subtropical and, more recently, temperate regions around the world.
- heat lamp — a lamp fitted with an infrared bulb to supply heat especially as part of physical therapy.
- heat pump — a device that uses a compressible refrigerant to transfer heat from one body, as the ground, air, or water, to another body, as a building, with the process being reversible.
- heat-moon — William Least [leest] /list/ (Show IPA), (William Trogden) born 1939, U.S. writer.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- hectogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- hektogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- helpmates — (British) Plural form of helpmate.
- hematinic — a medicine, as a compound of iron, that tends to increase the amount of hematin or hemoglobin in the blood.
- hematitic — Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.
- hematomas — (US) Plural form of hematoma (Alternative spelling of haematomas).
- hematosis — hematopoiesis.