9-letter words containing h, o, r, m, i
- homiliary — a collection of homilies.
- hormisdas — Saint, died a.d. 523, pope 514–523.
- horsemint — a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
- humorists — Plural form of humorist.
- humouring — humor.
- humourist — (British) alternative spelling of humorist.
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.
- hypocrism — (obsolete) hypocrisy.
- ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.
- inchworms — Plural form of inchworm.
- inharmony — Lack of harmony.
- ironsmith — a worker in iron; blacksmith.
- isomorphs — Plural form of isomorph.
- isorhythm — a structural feature characteristic of the Ars Nova motet, consisting of a single rhythmic phrase pattern repeated, usually in the tenor, throughout the composition.
- isotherms — Plural form of isotherm.
- logarithm — the exponent of the power to which a base number must be raised to equal a given number; log: 2 is the logarithm of 100 to the base 10 (2 = log10 100).
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- mayorship — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- microchip — chip1 (def 5).
- microinch — a unit of length equal to one millionth of an inch. Symbol: μin.
- microlith — a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- microthin — extremely or, sometimes, microscopically thin: a microthin layer of aluminum.
- minorship — the state of being a minor
- misgrowth — an abnormal or distorted growth
- mixotroph — any organism capable of existing as either an autotroph or heterotroph.
- moithered — Simple past tense and past participle of moither.
- monarchic — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
- monorchid — having or appearing to have only one testis.
- monorhine — an animal that has one nasal orifice
- morphemic — 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).
- morphinic — of, pertaining to, or resembling morphine
- morphisms — Plural form of morphism.
- morphosis — the sequence or manner of development or change in an organism or any of its parts.
- morphotic — (biology) Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework.
- mothering — a female parent.
- motorship — a ship driven by a diesel or other internal-combustion engine.
- murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
- omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
- pariahdom — an outcast.
- perimorph — a crystal of one mineral enclosing that of another mineral. Compare endomorph (def 1).
- pforzheim — a city in W Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- re-homing — the act of re-homing an animal
- rhamphoid — beaklike or beak-shaped
- rhizobium — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Rhizobium, found as symbiotic nitrogen fixers in nodules on the roots of the bean, clover, etc.
- rhizotomy — the surgical section or cutting of the spinal nerve roots, usually posterior or sensory roots, to eliminate pain.
- rhodamine — a red dye obtained by heating an alkyl aminophenol with phthalic anhydride.