10-letter words containing h, a, l, m, s
- hidalgoism — the position or practice of a hidalgo
- hla system — human leucocyte antigen system; a group of the most important antigens responsible for tissue compatibility, together with the genes that encode them. For tissue and organ transplantation to be successful there needs to be a minimum number of HLA differences between the donor's and recipient's tissue
- hologamous — of or relating to an organism having reproductive cells similar in size and structure to the somatic cells.
- home sales — the sale of houses and flats; property sales
- homoblasty — the state of being homoblastic
- homosexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- homosocial — Pertaining to homosociality, to social interaction with the same sex.
- horse balm — a lemon-scented plant, Collinsonia canadensis, of eastern North America, having small yellow flowers.
- horse clam — gaper.
- hume's law — the philosophical doctrine that an evaluative statement cannot be derived from purely factual premises, often formulated as: one can't derive an "ought" from an "is"
- 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
- hyaloplasm — ground substance.
- hydrosomal — of or relating to a hydrosome
- ishmaelite — a descendant of Ishmael, the traditional ancestor of the Arab peoples.
- isothermal — occurring at constant temperature.
- lachrymals — Plural form of lachrymal.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lagomorphs — Plural form of lagomorph.
- lamb shift — the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom detected by Willis Eugene Lamb (1913–2008), the US physicist
- lamp shell — a mollusklike marine animal; brachiopod.
- lamp-shade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampshades — Plural form of lampshade.
- larithmics — the study of quantitative relations in population aggregates.
- lavishment — The act of lavishing.
- leishmania — any parasitic flagellate protozoan of the genus Leishmania, occurring in vertebrates in an oval or spherical, nonflagellate form, and in invertebrates in an elongated, flagellated form.
- lengthsman — a lengthman
- loathesome — Misspelling of loathsome.
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- lubumbashi — a province in the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo: important mining area. 191,878 sq. mi. (496,964 sq. km). Capital: Lubumbashi.
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- mach scale — a scale that measures how much deceit and manipulation one will approve or condone in order to achieve some end.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- malachites — Plural form of malachite.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- manhandles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manhandle.
- marchlands — Plural form of marchland.
- marshalers — Plural form of marshaler.
- marshaling — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshalled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshaller — Alternative spelling of marshaler.
- marshalsea — the court of the marshal of the royal household.
- marshfield — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- marshlands — Plural form of marshland.
- mast cloth — a partial lining sewed to the back of a square sail to prevent chafing from contact with the mast.
- matchgirls — Plural form of matchgirl.
- matchlocks — Plural form of matchlock.