9-letter words containing h, e, m
- hemistich — the exact or approximate half of a stich, or poetic verse or line, especially as divided by a caesura or the like.
- hemitrope — twin1 (def 5).
- hemoblast — hematoblast.
- hemocoels — Plural form of hemocoel.
- hemocytes — Plural form of hemocyte.
- hemogenia — pseudohemophilia.
- hemogenic — Of, or relating to the production of blood cells.
- hemolymph — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- hemolysin — a substance, as an antibody, that in cooperation with complement causes dissolution of red blood cells.
- hemolysis — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- hemolytic — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- hemolyzed — to subject (red blood cells) to hemolysis.
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
- hemophile — a hemophiliac.
- hemotoxic — a toxin, as cobra venom, that causes a hemolytic reaction.
- hemotoxin — a toxin, as cobra venom, that causes a hemolytic reaction.
- hemotroph — the material from the maternal bloodstream and placenta that nourishes a mammalian embryo.
- hemp tree — chaste tree.
- hempstead — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- hemstitch — to hem along a line from which threads have been drawn out, stitching the cross threads into a series of little groups.
- hepatomas — Plural form of hepatoma.
- herbalism — The study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, now especially as a form of alternative medicine.
- herbarium — a collection of dried plants systematically arranged.
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- hermandad — an informal police force in Spain
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- hermetics — alchemy
- hermetism — a former religion based on pagan mystical knowledge
- hermetist — a believer in or expounder of hermetism
- hermitage — the habitation of a hermit.
- hermitess — A female hermit.
- hermitism — the act of living as a hermit
- hermitize — To isolate oneself; to become a hermit.
- heroinism — an addiction to heroin
- herriment — the act of plundering
- hetaerism — concubinage.
- hetairism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- heteronym — a word spelled the same as another but having a different sound and meaning, as lead (to conduct) and lead (a metal).
- hetmanate — the authority, rule, or domain of a hetman.
- hexagrams — Plural form of hexagram.
- hexameral — hexamerous.
- hexameric — Of or pertaining to a hexamer.
- hexameron — hexaemeron.
- hexameter — a dactylic line of six feet, as in Greek and Latin epic poetry, in which the first four feet are dactyls or spondees, the fifth is ordinarily a dactyl, and the last is a trochee or spondee, with a caesura usually following the long syllable in the third foot.
- hierogram — a sacred symbol, as an emblem, pictograph, or the like.
- hieromonk — a monk who is also a priest.
- high beam — an automobile headlight beam providing bright, long-range illumination of a darkened road and chiefly for use in driving in nonurban areas.
- high time — the appropriate time or past the appropriate time: It's high time he got out of bed.
- hillerman — Tony, 1925–2008, U.S. novelist and anthropologist.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.