9-letter words containing c, h, e, m, o
- hemocoels — Plural form of hemocoel.
- hemocytes — Plural form of hemocyte.
- hemogenic — Of, or relating to the production of blood cells.
- hemolytic — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- hemotoxic — a toxin, as cobra venom, that causes a hemolytic reaction.
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- home care — a service provided by a local authority social services department to those whom it judges most need it
- home-care — of, relating to, or designating care, especially medical care, given or received at home: a member of the hospital's home-care staff.
- homecomer — someone who is coming home
- homecourt — (basketball) The home court of a basketball team.
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- homeplace — a person's birthplace or family home.
- homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
- homicides — Plural form of homicide.
- homiletic — of or relating to preaching or to homilies.
- homocercy — the condition in fish of having a symmetrical tail
- homogenic — having only one alternative form, or one allele, of a gene or genes: The plagues attacked relatively homogenic populations.
- honeycomb — a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
- how come? — what is the reason that?
- hypoxemic — inadequate oxygenation of the blood.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- isocheims — Plural form of isocheim.
- macroetch — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- mascouche — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- mischoice — a bad or wrong choice
- mischoose — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mischosen — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mochiness — a fusty, dank, or humid condition
- molochise — sacrifice to deity
- molochize — to offer up or immolate to a god
- morphemic — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- mouchette — a daggerlike form, especially in tracery, created by a segmental and an ogee curve so that it is pointed at one end and circular at the other.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
- outscheme — to outdo in scheming
- overmatch — to be more than a match for; surpass; defeat: an assignment that clearly overmatched his abilities; an able task force that overmatched the enemy fleet.
- phonemics — the study of phonemes and phonemic systems.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- sachemdom — the office of a sachem
- schmooses — to chat idly; gossip.
- schmoozer — to chat idly; gossip.
- showmance — a romance between two stars that only lasts for the run of the show