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11-letter words containing h, e, r, m, o

  • radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
  • remand home — a detention home for juvenile offenders aged 8–16 years.
  • remote echo — (communications)   (Obsolete: "full-duplex") A mode of operation of communicating programs or devices in which the sending system does not display the characters the user enters, but only sends them to the remote system which then "echoes" them back to be displayed to the user. This lets the operator see not only typing errors, but also transmission errors. This is now the usual mode of most systems with remote users. Contrast: local echo.
  • rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
  • rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
  • rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
  • 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.
  • right money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
  • river-mouth — an estuary
  • 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.
  • roman shade — a window shade that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds.
  • rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
  • room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
  • room mother — a female volunteer, often the mother of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
  • 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.
  • route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
  • scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
  • schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
  • scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
  • seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
  • serrano ham — cured ham from Spain
  • sex hormone — any of a class of steroid hormones that regulate the growth and function of the reproductive organs or stimulate the development of the secondary sexual characteristics.
  • shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
  • shed dormer — a dormer with a flat roof sloping in the same direction as the roof from which the dormer projects.
  • short metre — a stanza form, used esp for hymns, consisting of four lines, the third of which has eight syllables, while the rest have six
  • short money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Commons to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1975
  • short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
  • show jumper — A show jumper is a person who takes part in the sport of show jumping.
  • shower room — a room which contains a shower
  • shuddersome — tending to shudder
  • smallholder — owner of small plot of land
  • smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
  • smooth over — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
  • solo mother — a mother with a dependent child or dependent children and no spouse
  • somersworth — a town in SE New Hampshire.
  • somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
  • southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
  • speech form — linguistic form.
  • 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.
  • spermophyte — spermatophyte.
  • spherometer — an instrument for measuring the curvature of spheres and curved surfaces.
  • stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
  • stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
  • stethometer — an instrument for measuring the expansion of the chest and abdomen during respiration.
  • stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
  • storm house — a storm cellar.
  • strike home — to deliver an effective blow
  • summerhouse — a simple, often rustic structure in a park or garden, intended to provide shade in the summer.
  • supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
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