10-letter words containing h, e, t, r, o, m
- metatheory — a theory devised to analyze a theory.
- metathorax — the posterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the third pair of legs and the second pair of wings.
- methiocarb — a crystalline compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 2 S, used as a nonsystemic insecticide and miticide.
- methoprene — a synthetic insect juvenile hormone, C 1 9 H 3 4 O 3 , used as a biological pesticide primarily on mosquito and fly larvae to prevent maturing to the adult state.
- methylator — A person, company of device that methylates (originally, one that produced methylated spirits).
- microphyte — a microscopic plant.
- microtherm — a plant requiring a minimum of heat for growth.
- moa hunter — the name given by anthropologists to the early Māori inhabitants of New Zealand
- montrachet — a dry white wine of N Burgundy
- morgenthau — Henry, 1856–1946, U.S. financier and diplomat, born in Germany.
- morphodite — (informal, slang) A comic slang version of hermaphrodite.
- mother hen — a person who attends to the welfare of others, especially one who is fussily protective.
- mother wit — natural or practical intelligence, wit, or sense.
- mother yaw — the initial lesion of yaws, occurring at the site of inoculation.
- motherhood — the state of being a mother; maternity.
- motherland — one's native land.
- motherless — a female parent.
- motherlike — Having the quality or suggestive of a mother; maternal, motherly.
- motherload — A very large amount of something valuable.
- motherlode — (literally) The main, central lode of a natural resource, near which smaller deposits of the same ore etc. exist.
- mothership — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- motherwell — Robert, 1915–91, U.S. painter.
- motherwort — a European plant, Leonorus cardiaca, of the mint family, an introduced weed in the U.S., having cut leaves with a whorl of lavender flowers in the axils.
- motor home — a small bus or trucklike vehicle with a roomlike area behind the driver's seat outfitted as living quarters.
- murtherous — (archaic) Intending, or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty or homicidal.
- myotherapy — A form of manual medicine focusing on the diagnosis, treatment and management of musculoskeletal pain.
- mythologer — A mythologist.
- nameworthy — worthy of or deserving a name
- nephometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of cloud cover in the sky.
- nephrotomy — incision into the kidney, as for the removal of a calculus.
- nethermore — (archaic, rare) farther down; lower.
- nethermost — lowest; farthest down: the nethermost depths of the ocean.
- nonthermal — Not thermal; not produced by heat.
- orchectomy — orchiectomy.
- orthodrome — (geometry) a great circle, or part of one.
- orthometry — The art or practice of constructing verses correctly; the laws of correct poetry.
- outmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of outmarch.
- overcometh — Archaic third-person singular form of overcome.
- overmighty — too forceful
- phonometer — a device for measuring the intensity of a sound.
- photometer — an instrument that measures luminous intensity or brightness, luminous flux, light distribution, color, etc., usually by comparing the light emitted by two sources, one source having certain specified standard characteristics.
- photometry — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
- promethean — of or suggestive of Prometheus.
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- promethium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element. Symbol: Pm; atomic number: 61.
- regal moth — a large moth, Citheronia regalis, having yellow spots on gray to olive forewings and on orange-red hind wings.
- rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
- rothermere — 1st Viscount, Harold Sidney Harmsworth.
- routemarch — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.