11-letter words containing h, i, m, e
- physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
- physitheism — the attribution of physical form to gods and religious beings
- pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
- pith helmet — a hat made of dried pith or cork covered with cloth, worn in the tropics.
- 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.
- pre-homeric — of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- preemphasis — a process of increasing the amplitude of certain frequencies relative to others in a signal in order to help them override noise, complemented by deemphasis before final reproduction of the signal being received.
- premiership — the head of the cabinet in France or Italy or certain other countries; first minister; prime minister.
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- psammophile — a plant or animal that thrives in sand
- publishment — publication.
- pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
- re-emphasis — special stress laid upon, or importance attached to, anything: The president's statement gave emphasis to the budgetary crisis.
- reemphasize — to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress: to emphasize a point; to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
- rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- 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.
- rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
- rudesheimer — any of the Rheingau wines from the vineyards near Rüdesheim, a town on the Rhine River in W Germany.
- schematical — based on a scheme or structured arrangement
- schismatize — to take part in a schism.
- schistosome — Also called bilharzia. any elongated trematode of the genus Schistosoma, parasitic in the blood vessels of humans and other mammals; a blood fluke.
- schmierkase — cottage cheese.
- 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
- schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.
- scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
- seed shrimp — ostracod
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- semi-sphere — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
- semimonthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
- semispheric — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
- sheet music — music printed on unbound sheets of paper.
- shimonoseki — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: treaty ending Sino-Japanese War signed 1895.
- short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
- sight rhyme — agreement in spelling, but not in sound, of the ends of words or of lines of verse, as in have, grave.
- silversmith — a person whose occupation is making and repairing articles of silver.
- simethicone — an active ingredient in many antacid preparations that causes small mucus-entrapped air bubbles in the intestines to coalesce into larger bubbles that are more easily passed.
- sir michael — Sir Michael (Kemp) 1905–98, British composer.
- small white — a small white butterfly, Artogeia rapae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
- smithereens — If something is smashed or blown to smithereens, it breaks into very small pieces.
- smithsonite — a native carbonate of zinc, ZnCO 3 , that is an important ore of the metal.
- somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.