9-letter words containing h, e, i, m, s
- homegirls — Plural form of homegirl.
- homeliest — lacking in physical attractiveness; not beautiful; unattractive: a homely child.
- homesites — Plural form of homesite.
- homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
- homicides — Plural form of homicide.
- hominines — Plural form of hominine.
- horsemint — a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- hoydenism — The behaviour of a hoyden.
- humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.
- humanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humanize.
- humidness — Humidity.
- humphries — (John) Barry. born 1934, Australian comic actor and writer, best known for creating the character Dame Edna Everage
- hunkerism — a member of the conservative faction in the Democratic Party in New York State, 1845–48.
- hymnodies — Plural form of hymnody.
- hyphenism — dual patriotic loyalty
- impeaches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impeach.
- inmeshing — Present participle of inmesh.
- intermesh — any knit, woven, or knotted fabric of open texture.
- ischaemia — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- ischaemic — (UK, pathology, cardiology) alternative spelling of ischemic.
- isocheims — Plural form of isocheim.
- isotherms — Plural form of isotherm.
- isthmuses — Plural form of isthmus.
- jokesmith — (jocular) A person who devises jokes.
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- 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.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- lichenism — the symbiotic association between a fungus and alga that forms a lichen
- lightsome — emitting or reflecting light; luminous.
- limehouse — a dock district in the East End of London, England, once notorious for its squalor: formerly a Chinese quarter.
- lithesome — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- made dish — a dish consisting of a number of different ingredients cooked together
- maidenish — Resembling or characteristic of a maiden.
- mainsheet — a sheet of a mainsail.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- manicheus — Manes.
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- mechanics — a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.
- mechanise — to make mechanical.
- mechanism — an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.
- mechanist — a person who believes in the theory of mechanism.
- media-shy — reluctant to appear in the mass media
- megaliths — Plural form of megalith.
- megillahs — Plural form of megillah.
- memsahibs — Plural form of memsahib.
- menshevik — a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party in opposition to the Bolsheviks: advocated gradual development of full socialism through parliamentary government and cooperation with bourgeois parties; absorbed into the Communist party formed in 1918.
- mephitism — poisonous air or a foul smell
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- mess with — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.