9-letter words containing h, o, m, l, e
- homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
- homestall — Dialect. a farmyard.
- homestyle — simple and unpretentious, evoking the comforts of home: homestyle cooking; home-style hospitality.
- homiletic — of or relating to preaching or to homilies.
- homologue — something homologous.
- homophile — a homosexual.
- hordeolum — sty2 .
- hot metal — metallic type and printing elements produced by a casting machine; foundry type.
- humoredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) American standard spelling of humouredly.
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- hyalomere — the transparent part of a blood platelet, surrounding the chromomere.
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
- la boheme — an opera (1896) by Giacomo Puccini.
- lamp-hole — a hole in the ground for lowering a lamp down into a sewer
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- lightsome — emitting or reflecting light; luminous.
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- limehouse — a dock district in the East End of London, England, once notorious for its squalor: formerly a Chinese quarter.
- lithesome — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- lithotome — an instrument used in a lithotomy operation, to remove bladder stones
- loathsome — causing feelings of loathing; disgusting; revolting; repulsive: a loathsome skin disease.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
- meal moth — a small pyralid moth, Pyralis farinalis, whose larvae are an important pest of stored cereals. The Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella) and the Mediterranean flour moth (Ephestia kuehniella) are other pyralids with similar habits
- megilloth — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- mesophyll — the parenchyma, usually containing chlorophyll, that forms the interior parts of a leaf.
- meyerhold — Vsevolod Emilievich, original name Karl Theodor Kasimir. 1874–c. 1940, Russian theatre director, noted for his experimental nonrealistic productions. He was arrested in 1939 and died in custody
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- millhouse — a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.
- molehills — Plural form of molehill.
- molochise — sacrifice to deity
- molochize — to offer up or immolate to a god
- monoethyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) A single ethyl group in a molecule.
- monowheel — A vehicle similar to a unicycle, its rider sitting within or adjacent to the single wheel.
- monthlies — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- mophandle — The handle of a mop.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- moth-hole — a hole in a piece of material or item clothing caused by a moth eating it
- motlanthe — Kgalema (ɡɑːˈlɛmə). born 1949, South African statesman: president (2008–09)
- mousehole — the burrow of a mouse.
- mouthable — able to be recited or spoken well
- mouthfeel — the tactile sensation a food gives to the mouth: a creamy mouthfeel.
- mouthless — Without a mouth.
- mouthlike — Resembling a mouth or some aspect of one.
- moygashel — an Irish linen
- mushmelon — muskmelon.
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- overwhelm — to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.