11-letter words containing h, a, m, i
- bat mitzvah — (of a Jewish girl) having attained religious majority at the age of twelve
- bathymetric — Of, pertaining to, or derived from bathymetry.
- batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
- behaviorism — Behaviorism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- biochemical — Biochemical changes, reactions, and mechanisms relate to the chemical processes that happen in living things.
- blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- bodhidharma — 6th century ad, Indian Buddhist monk, who taught in China (from 520): considered to be the founder of Zen Buddhism
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- brahmachari — a student of the Vedas, especially one committed to brahmacharya.
- brahminical — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- brith milah — the rite of circumcision on the eighth day after birth
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- callimachus — late 5th century bc, Greek sculptor, reputed to have invented the Corinthian capital
- camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
- camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
- cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
- cashierment — the action of rejecting or dismissing
- catechismal — Of or pertaining to a catechism; having the form of questions and answers; catechical.
- catholicism — Catholicism is the traditions, the behaviour, and the set of Christian beliefs that are held by Catholics.
- ceramic hob — (on an electric cooker) a flat ceramic cooking surface having heating elements fitted on the underside, usually patterned to show the areas where heat is produced
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chairwarmer — an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective
- chalcidicum — an annex of an ancient Roman basilica.
- chamberlain — A chamberlain is the person who is in charge of the household affairs of a king, queen, or person of high social rank.
- chambermaid — A chambermaid is a woman who cleans and tidies the bedrooms in a hotel.
- chameleonic — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
- chamfer bit — a bit for beveling the edge of a hole.
- champerties — Plural form of champerty.
- champignons — Plural form of champignon.
- championess — a female champion
- championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
- charchemish — an ancient city in S Turkey, on the upper Euphrates: important city in the Mitanni kingdom; later the capital of the Hittite empire.
- charientism — (rhetoric) A figure of speech wherein a taunting expression is softened by a jest; an insult veiled in grace.
- charismatic — A charismatic person attracts, influences, and inspires people by their personal qualities.
- chart music — songs that feature in the music charts
- chasmogamic — relating or pertaining to chasmogamy
- checkmating — Present participle of checkmate.
- chemigraphy — any technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals and without the aid of photography.
- chemiotaxis — Dated form of chemotaxis.
- chemotactic — oriented movement toward or away from a chemical stimulus.
- chiasmatypy — the process of chiasma formation, which is the basis for crossing over.
- chibougamau — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- chickamauga — creek in NW Ga.: site of a Civil War battle (Sept., 1863) in which Confederate forces routed the Union army