8-letter words containing h, o, m, e
- humoresk — humorous musical composition
- humoured — Simple past tense and past participle of humour.
- hydromel — a liquor consisting of honey and water that, when fermented, becomes mead.
- hypoderm — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- isocheim — a line on a map connecting points that have the same mean winter temperature.
- isotherm — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- khomeini — Ayatollah Ruhollah [roo-hoh-luh;; Persian roo-haw-lah] /ruˈhoʊ lə;; Persian ˌru hɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1900?–89, Islamic leader of Iran 1979–89.
- leechdom — a remedy
- madhouse — a hospital for the confinement and treatment of mentally disturbed persons.
- manchego — a Spanish cheese made from ewes' milk
- manholes — Plural form of manhole.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- meathook — A sharp metal hook of a kind used to hang meat carcasses.
- melchior — one of the three Magi.
- menorahs — Plural form of menorah.
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- merodach — Marduk.
- meshwork — meshed material or a structure of meshes; a network.
- metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- methadon — a synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 8 ClNO, similar to morphine but effective orally, used in the relief of pain and as a heroin substitute in the treatment of heroin addiction.
- methanol — methyl alcohol.
- methodic — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- methoxyl — containing the methoxy group.
- meyerhof — Otto [ot-oh;; German awt-oh] /ˈɒt oʊ;; German ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1951, German physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1922.
- mezuzoth — Plural form of mezuzah.
- mohammed — ("the Conqueror") 1430–81, sultan of Turkey 1451–81: conqueror of Constantinople 1453.
- molehill — a small mound or ridge of earth raised up by a mole or moles burrowing under the ground.
- molehunt — a hunt for moles
- monoheme — (biochemistry) A single heme group in a hemoprotein.
- monteith — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- moochers — Plural form of moocher.
- moonshee — a native interpreter or language instructor.
- moorhead — a city in W Minnesota.
- morpheme — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
- morphine — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- moschate — having a musky smell.
- mothered — Simple past tense and past participle of mother.
- motherer — Agent noun of mother: one who mothers.
- motherly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a mother; maternal: motherly solicitude.
- mothlike — Resembling a moth or some aspect of one.
- mouthier — Comparative form of mouthy.
- mud hose — A mud hose is a flexible tube which connects the mud tank to the swivel for forcing mud down the hole inside the drill string.
- mulhouse — a city in E France, near the Rhine.
- neomorph — (genetics) a gain of function mutation that causes novel gene function.
- nichrome — An alloy of nickel with chromium (10 to 20 percent) and sometimes iron (up to 25 percent), used chiefly in high-temperature applications such as electrical heating elements.
- obeahism — the custom of or faith in the form of witchcraft known as obeah
- ockeghem — Johannes [yoh-hah-nuh s] /yoʊˈhɑ nəs/ (Show IPA), Okeghem, Jean d'.
- ohmmeter — an instrument for measuring electric resistance in ohms.