10-letter words containing h, a, e, m, o
- chemostats — Plural form of chemostat.
- chemotaxis — the movement of a microorganism or cell in response to a chemical stimulus
- cheongsams — Plural form of cheongsam.
- chloramine — an unstable colourless liquid with a pungent odour, made by the reaction of sodium hypochlorite and ammonia. Formula: NH2Cl
- chroma key — an electronic special-effects system for combining a desired background with live foreground action.
- chromagens — Plural form of chromagen.
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- chromonema — a coiled chromatin thread within a single chromosome
- chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
- coachmaker — A coachbuilder.
- comanchean — of or relating to the early part of the Cretaceous system and period
- comanchero — (in 19th-century New Mexico) a trader who traded with the Native American nomadic tribes such as the Comanche, Navajo, and Apache
- commandeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- demothball — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dimethoate — a highly toxic crystalline compound, C 5 H 12 NO 3 PS 2 , used as an insecticide.
- dual-homed — (networking) A kind of connection to a FDDI network where a host is simultaneously connected to two separate devices in the same FDDI ring. One of the connections becomes active while the other one is automatically blocked. If the first connection fails, the backup link takes over with no perceptible delay. A dual-homed device can tolerate a fault in one of its "homes" whereas a dual-attached device can tolerate a fault in one of the rings.
- earthmover — a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.
- earthwoman — a female inhabitant or native of the planet Earth.
- earthwomen — Plural form of earthwoman.
- earthworms — Plural form of earthworm.
- enharmonic — Of or relating to notes that are the same in pitch (in modern tuning) though bearing different names (e.g., F sharp and G flat or B and C flat).
- enomotarch — (historical, Ancient Greece) The commander of an enomoty.
- enthraldom — the condition of being enthralled
- epiphonema — an exclamation that concludes a discourse
- erímanthos — a mountain in SW Greece, in the NW Peloponnese. Height: 2224 m (7297 ft)
- ethambutol — a compound used in the treatment of tuberculosis
- euharmonic — producing perfect concord or harmony
- exhumation — The act of digging up that which has been buried.
- exothermal — Exothermic.
- farmhouses — Plural form of farmhouse.
- fathomable — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- fathometer — (nautical) A depth finder that uses sound waves to determine the depth of water.
- fathomless — impossible to measure the depth of; bottomless.
- for shame! — you ought to be ashamed! here is cause for shame!
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- geothermal — of or relating to the internal heat of the earth.
- germaphobe — One who suffers from germaphobia.
- gramophone — a phonograph.
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- haemagogue — promoting the flow of blood
- haematomas — Plural form of haematoma.
- haematosis — Alternative form of hematosis.
- haemocoels — Plural form of haemocoel.
- haemoconia — the small particles of matter, thought to be particles of the structure of red blood cells, that are present in blood that is flowing around the body