11-letter words containing h, e, m, l, o
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- phlebectomy — the surgical excision of a vein or part of a vein
- phlebotomic — of or noting phlebotomy.
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- pleomorphic — of, relating to, or characterized by pleomorphism; polymorphous.
- pole hammer — a shafted weapon having a spiked hammer head.
- protophloem — the part of the primary phloem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
- psammophile — a plant or animal that thrives in sand
- rhyme royal — a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh.
- roche limit — the minimum distance below which a moon orbiting a celestial body would be disrupted by tidal forces or below which a moon would not have formed.
- rough lemon — a variety of lemon that has orange-yellow, rough-skinned fruit and is used as a rootstock for the cultivation of other citrus fruits.
- school meal — lunch served at educational institution
- school time — the period of the day or year when children are at school
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- semimonthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- smallholder — owner of small plot of land
- smoke shelf — a ledge at the bottom of a smoke chamber, so made as to deflect or break downdrafts from the chimney.
- solo mother — a mother with a dependent child or dependent children and no spouse
- spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
- stomachless — lacking or not having a stomach
- szombathely — a city in W Hungary: founded a.d. 48.
- thalidomide — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 13 H 10 N 2 O 4 , formerly used as a sedative: if taken during pregnancy, it may cause severe abnormalities in the limbs of the fetus.
- thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
- thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
- thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
- thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
- thomasville — a city in S Georgia.
- tumble home — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
- twelvemonth — a year.
- unlightsome — without light; dark
- unwholesome — not wholesome; unhealthful; deleterious to health or physical or moral well-being: unwholesome food; unwholesome activities.
- vowel rhyme — Prosody. assonance (def 2).
- vowel-rhyme — resemblance of sounds.
- wheedlesome — tending to wheedle
- wholesomely — In a wholesome manner.
- wholesomest — Superlative form of wholesome.
- zoochemical — the branch of chemistry dealing with the constituents of the animal body; animal chemistry.