11-letter words containing m, a, h
- heavy cream — thick cream having a high percentage of butterfat.
- heavy metal — big iron
- hebdomadary — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a church or monastery appointed for one week to sing the chapter Mass and lead in the recitation of the breviary.
- hegelianism — the philosophy of Hegel and his followers, characterized by the use of the Hegelian dialectic.
- hegemonical — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- hellgramite — The aquatic larval form of the dobsonfly, having a segmented body with legs on each segment, and a head with prominent pincers, prized as fish bait.
- hem and haw — the utterance or sound of “hem.”.
- hemanalysis — an analysis, especially of the chemical constituents, of the blood.
- hematemesis — The vomiting of blood.
- hemathermal — warm-blooded; homoiothermal.
- hematoblast — an immature blood cell, especially a red blood cell.
- hematocryal — cold-blooded; poikilothermal.
- hematologic — Of or relating to hematology.
- hematolysis — hemolysis.
- hematophagy — The practice, of some animals, of feeding on blood.
- hematophyte — a microorganism, as a bacterium, that lives in the blood.
- hematoxylin — a colorless or pale-yellow, crystalline compound, C 16 H 14 O 6 ·3H 2 O, the coloring material of logwood: used as a mordant dye and as an indicator.
- hemeralopia — a condition of the eyes in which sight is normal in the night or in a dim light but is abnormally poor or wholly absent in the day or in a bright light.
- hemeralopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in bright light; day-blind; suffering from hemeralopia.
- hemiacetals — Plural form of hemiacetal.
- hemianopsia — any of several conditions in which there is blindness in half of the visual field, involving one or both eyes.
- hemianoptic — suffering from hemiopia, blind in half the field of vision
- hemicranial — Relating to hemicrania.
- hemihydrate — a hydrate in which there are two molecules of the compound for each molecule of water.
- hemiparesis — partial paralysis affecting only one side of the body.
- hemipterans — Plural form of hemipteran.
- hemistichal — of or relating to a hemistich
- hemodynamic — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- hemophiliac — Also, hemophile. a person having hemophilia.
- hemorrhaged — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- hemorrhages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hemorrhage.
- hemorrhagic — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- hemostatics — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- hemotherapy — therapy by means of blood, serum, or plasma transfusion.
- hepatectomy — excision of part of the liver.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptameters — Plural form of heptameter.
- herald moth — a noctuid moth, Scoliopteryx libatrix, having brownish cryptically mottled forewings and plain dull hind wings. The adult hibernates and has a prolonged life
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- hermit crab — any of numerous crabs, especially of the genera Pagurus and Eupagurus, that protect their soft uncovered abdomen by occupying the castoff shell of a univalve mollusk.
- hetaerismic — of or relating to courtesans
- hetairismic — relating to hetairism, concubinage
- heteroatoms — Plural form of heteroatom.
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- hexadecimal — Also, hex. of or relating to a numbering system that uses 16 as the radix, employing the numerals 0 through 9 and representing digits greater than 9 with the letters A through F.
- hexahemeron — hexaemeron.
- hexametrist — a person who writes in hexameters
- hexametrize — to write or put into hexameters
- hexidecimal — (spelling) Mis-spelling of "hexadecimal".