10-letter words containing h, o, m, a, l
- harmonical — Alternative form of harmonic.
- healthsome — healthy; salubrious
- hebdomadal — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
- hegemonial — hegemonic, controlling, dominant
- helmswoman — The female equivalent of a helmsman.
- hematocele — hemorrhage into a cavity, as the cavity surrounding the testis.
- hematology — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- hemophilia — any of several X-linked genetic disorders, symptomatic chiefly in males, in which excessive bleeding occurs owing to the absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood.
- hidalgoism — the position or practice of a hidalgo
- hol hamoed — the period between the first and last two days of Passover or Sukkoth, consisting of four days during Passover and five days during Sukkoth and having less than full festival status.
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- hologamous — of or relating to an organism having reproductive cells similar in size and structure to the somatic cells.
- homaloidal — (of a space or surface, etc) flat, in the form of a plane
- home leave — holiday time for a person who works abroad, during which they can go home
- home plate — the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
- home sales — the sale of houses and flats; property sales
- home-alone — (esp of a young child) left in a house, flat, etc unattended
- homoblasty — the state of being homoblastic
- homocercal — having an equally divided tail, characteristic of adult modern bony fishes.
- homologate — to approve; confirm or ratify.
- homophilia — (dated) homosexuality.
- homosexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- homosocial — Pertaining to homosociality, to social interaction with the same sex.
- homotaxial — a similarity of arrangement, as of geologic strata or fossil assemblages that have the same relative position but are not necessarily contemporaneous.
- homuncular — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- hormonally — In a hormonal way.
- horse balm — a lemon-scented plant, Collinsonia canadensis, of eastern North America, having small yellow flowers.
- horse clam — gaper.
- humiliator — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humoralism — a theory of the composition and workings of the human body, based on the idea that it was filled with four basic substances, or humours, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- hyaloplasm — ground substance.
- hydrosomal — of or relating to a hydrosome
- hypodermal — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypolimnia — Plural form of hypolimnion.
- ichthammol — a viscous, reddish-brown to brownish-black substance, obtained by the destructive distillation of bituminous shales, used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic, analgesic, and local stimulant in skin disorders.
- isothermal — occurring at constant temperature.
- karyolymph — The liquid part of the nucleus of a cell.
- klootchman — a North American Indian woman
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lagomorphs — Plural form of lagomorph.
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- largemouth — Applied to various kinds of fish characterized by a large mouth.
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- lithomarge — kaolin in compact, massive, usually impure form.
- loathesome — Misspelling of loathsome.
- loch morar — a lake in W Scotland, in the SW Highlands: the deepest in Scotland. Length: 18 km (11 miles). Depth: 296 m (987 ft)
- logarithms — Plural form of logarithm.
- long march — the 6000-mile (9654-km) retreat of the Chinese Communist Party and Red Army from southeastern China (Jiangxi province) to the northwest (Yanan in Shaanxi province) in 1934–35, during which Mao Zedong became leader of the Communist party.