9-letter words containing h, a, m, s
- emphatics — Plural form of emphatic.
- emphysema — A condition in which the air sacs of the lungs are damaged and enlarged, causing breathlessness.
- exanthems — Plural form of exanthem.
- famishing — Present participle of famish.
- farm shop — a shop that sells farm produce
- farmhands — Plural form of farmhand.
- farmhouse — a house on a farm, especially the one used by the farmer and farmer's family.
- fish farm — a facility in which fish are bred for commercial purposes.
- fish meal — dried fish ground for use as fertilizer, animal feed, or an ingredient in other foods.
- fisherman — a person who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
- fishwoman — (dated) A woman who sells fish.
- flamefish — a cardinalfish, Apogon maculatus, of Atlantic coastal waters from Florida to Brazil.
- flash mob — a group of people mobilized by social media to meet in a public place for the purpose of doing an unusual or entertaining activity of short duration: The flash mob brought wide smiles to the faces of commuters waiting for their train.
- flash rom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- flashlamp — an electric lamp, usually containing xenon or another noble gas, used to produce a brief flash or pulsed flashes of intense light, such as that used in a camera flash
- for shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
- forasmuch — Inasmuch, seeing (that).
- fukushima — a city on N Honshu, in N Japan.
- game fish — an edible fish capable of affording sport to the angler in its capture.
- game show — a television or radio program in which contestants answer questions or play games of skill or chance in order to win money or other prizes.
- gandhiism — the principles associated with Mohandas Gandhi, especially his principles of noncooperation and passive resistance in gaining political and social reforms.
- gilgamesh — a legendary Sumerian king, the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics.
- gladsheim — the golden palace of Odin, of which Valhalla was a part.
- graphemes — Plural form of grapheme.
- gravesham — a borough in NW Kent, in SE England.
- gymkhanas — Plural form of gymkhana.
- haemolyse — to break down red blood cells so that haemoglobin is released
- haemostat — A clamp used in surgery to close the severed end of a blood vessel to stop bleeding.
- hailstorm — a storm with hail.
- hairworms — Plural form of hairworm.
- half-mast — a position approximately halfway between the top of a mast, staff, etc., and its base.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- hallmarks — Plural form of hallmark.
- hallowmas — the feast of Allhallows or All Saints' Day, on November 1.
- haloforms — Plural form of haloform.
- hamadryas — A large baboon, Papio hamadryas, from northern Africa and Arabia, that was sacred in ancient Egypt.
- hamamatsu — a city on S central Honshu, in central Japan.
- hamamelis — (botany) Any of the flowering plant genus Hamamelis, the witch hazels.
- hamantash — hamantasch.
- hamfisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hamiltons — Plural form of hamilton.
- hamminess — The state of being hammy.
- hampshire — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hampstead — a former borough of London, England, now part of Camden.
- hamstring — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handlooms — Plural form of handloom.
- handmaids — Plural form of handmaid.
- handsomer — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handsomes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of handsome.