10-letter words containing h, o, r, s, e, m
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- homebuyers — Plural form of homebuyer.
- homemakers — Plural form of homemaker.
- homeowners — Plural form of homeowner.
- homosphere — The lower part of the atmosphere, up to about sixty miles, in which there is no great change in its composition.
- horse balm — a lemon-scented plant, Collinsonia canadensis, of eastern North America, having small yellow flowers.
- horse clam — gaper.
- horsewoman — a woman who rides on horseback.
- horsewomen — Plural form of horsewoman.
- house mark — a trademark that appears on and identifies all of a company's products.
- housemaker — Homemaker.
- howsomever — in whatever manner, although
- humoresque — a musical composition of humorous or capricious character.
- humourless — (British spelling, Canadian) alternative spelling of humorless.
- humoursome — (archaic) Liable to humours or moods; fickle; ill-tempered.
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- hypodermis — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypsometer — thermobarometer (def 1).
- hypsometry — vertical control in mapping; the establishment of elevations or altitudes.
- impoverish — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- isothermal — occurring at constant temperature.
- isothermic — occurring at constant temperature.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- mentorship — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- mesomorphs — Plural form of mesomorph.
- mesomorphy — pertaining to or having a muscular or sturdy body build characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic mesoderm (contrasted with ectomorphic, endomorphic).
- mesorrhine — having a moderately broad and high-bridged nose.
- mesosphere — (in the classification of the earth's atmosphere by chemical properties) the region between the ionosphere and the exosphere, extending from about 250–650 miles (400–1050 km) above the surface of the earth.
- mesothorax — the middle segment of the three divisions of the thorax of an insect, bearing the second pair of legs and the first pair of wings.
- monarchies — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- moonshiner — a person who distills or sells liquor, especially corn liquor, illegally.
- more-welsh — of or relating to Wales, its people, or their language.
- morphemics — the study of the classification, description, and functions of morphemes; morphology.
- morphogens — Plural form of morphogen.
- motherless — a female parent.
- mothership — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- murtherous — (archaic) Intending, or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty or homicidal.
- mushroomed — Simple past tense and past participle of mushroom.
- mushroomer — a person who picks mushrooms
- nethermost — lowest; farthest down: the nethermost depths of the ocean.
- nomarchies — Plural form of nomarchy.
- pheromones — any chemical substance released by an animal that serves to influence the physiology or behavior of other members of the same species.
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- rhomboides — a rhomboid
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semichorus — half of a chorus; part of a chorus to be sung by a portion but not all of the singers
- shoe cream — cream for polishing shoes