9-letter words containing h, a, m, e, r
- hermandad — an informal police force in Spain
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- hermitage — the habitation of a hermit.
- hetaerism — concubinage.
- hetairism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- hexagrams — Plural form of hexagram.
- hexameral — hexamerous.
- hexameric — Of or pertaining to a hexamer.
- hexameron — hexaemeron.
- hexameter — a dactylic line of six feet, as in Greek and Latin epic poetry, in which the first four feet are dactyls or spondees, the fifth is ordinarily a dactyl, and the last is a trochee or spondee, with a caesura usually following the long syllable in the third foot.
- hierogram — a sacred symbol, as an emblem, pictograph, or the like.
- hillerman — Tony, 1925–2008, U.S. novelist and anthropologist.
- himyarite — one of an ancient people of southern Arabia speaking a Semitic language.
- home care — a service provided by a local authority social services department to those whom it judges most need it
- home farm — (esp formerly) a farm belonging to and providing food for a large country house
- 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.
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- homemaker — a person who manages the household of his or her own family, especially as a principal occupation.
- homer lea — Homer, 1876–1912, U.S. soldier and author: adviser 1911–12 to Sun Yat-sen in China.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horsemeat — The flesh of a horse as food.
- humanizer — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- hyalomere — the transparent part of a blood platelet, surrounding the chromomere.
- hydraemia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hydramide — (organic compound) One of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes.
- hydramine — an amine derived from a glycol in which one hydroxyl is replaced by an amino group.
- hyper-man — A browser available with Epoch giving hypertext access to the Unix manual.
- hyperemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hypergamy — the practice among Hindu women of marrying into a caste at least as high as their own.
- hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
- hypoderma — hypodermis.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- 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.
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- machmeter — a device that indicates airspeed relative to the speed of sound.
- macroetch — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- maharanee — (formerly) the wife of a maharajah.
- man-hater — someone, esp a woman, who dislikes or hates men
- manhelper — a long pole for holding a paintbrush, used in painting areas otherwise out of ordinary reach.
- manhunter — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- marchlike — (music) Resembling a march.
- marchpane — marzipan.
- mariehamn — a seaport on S Åland Island, in the Baltic.
- markevich — Igor [ee-guh r] /ˈi gər/ (Show IPA), 1912–83, Russian conductor and composer.
- marrakech — a city in W Morocco.
- marrakesh — a city in W Morocco.
- marsh hen — any of various rails or raillike birds.
- marshaled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.