9-letter words containing h, e, a, s
- meshugaas — foolishness; insanity; senselessness.
- meshugana — a crazy person.
- mess hall — a place in which a group eats regularly, especially a dining hall in a military camp, post, etc.
- metaphase — the stage in mitosis or meiosis in which the duplicated chromosomes line up along the equatorial plate of the spindle.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- methylase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyse methylation
- milkshake — A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.
- mindshare — Relative public awareness of a phenomenon.
- mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
- misbehave — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- mischance — a mishap or misfortune.
- mischarge — (legal or, finance) To charge wrongly.
- mishandle — to handle badly; maltreat: to mishandle a dog.
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- mishappen — (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
- mishegaas — meshugaas.
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
- misshaped — Simple past tense and past participle of misshape.
- misshapen — badly shaped; deformed.
- misshapes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misshape.
- monophase — (electricity) Having a single phase of alternating current.
- moonphase — a phase of the moon
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- mossadegh — Mohammed, 1880–1967, Iranian statesman: premier 1951–53.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- moygashel — an Irish linen
- muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
- mush area — a region where signals from two or more radio transmitters overlap, causing fading and distortion
- must-have — A must-have is something modern that many people want to have.
- mustached — Having a mustache.
- mustaches — Plural form of mustache.
- nanoshell — A dielectric nanoparticle coated with a very thin metallic shell.
- narghiles — Plural form of narghile.
- narthexes — Plural form of narthex.
- nashville — a state in the SE United States. 42,246 sq. mi. (109,415 sq. km). Capital: Nashville. Abbreviation: TN (for use with zip code), Tenn.
- natheless — nevertheless.
- nearshore — extending from or occurring along a shore.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- new maths — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- newsflash — flash (def 6).
- north sea — an arm of the Atlantic between Great Britain and the European mainland. About 201,000 sq. mi. (520,600 sq. km); greatest depth, 1998 feet (610 meters).
- northeast — a point on the compass midway between north and east. Abbreviation: NE.
- oakenshaw — an area of woodland containing oak trees
- oasthouse — Alternative spelling of oast house.
- oil shale — a black or dark-brown shale or siltstone rich in bitumens, from which shale oil is obtained by destructive distillation.
- on shares — with each person concerned taking a share of the profit or loss
- orchestra — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
- osteopath — a physician who practices osteopathy.