11-letter words containing m, a, o, s
- hammerstone — an ancient stone tool used as a hammer, as for chipping flint, processing food, or breaking up bones.
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
- harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
- harmonising — Present participle of harmonise.
- harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
- harmonizers — Plural form of harmonizer.
- hatemongers — Plural form of hatemonger.
- hematoblast — an immature blood cell, especially a red blood cell.
- hematolysis — hemolysis.
- hemianopsia — any of several conditions in which there is blindness in half of the visual field, involving one or both eyes.
- hemorrhages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hemorrhage.
- hemostatics — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- heteroatoms — Plural form of heteroatom.
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- hippocampus — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
- hippodamist — a horse-tamer
- hippodamous — horse-taming
- home waters — territorial waters
- homeoplasia — the formation, as in healing, of new tissue that is similar to the existing tissue.
- homeostases — Plural form of homeostasis.
- homeostasis — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- homeostatic — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- homesteaded — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- homesteader — the owner or holder of a homestead.
- homo-sexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- homogenates — Plural form of homogenate.
- homoiousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence of the Son is similar to, but not the same as, that of the Father.
- homoplastic — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homopterans — Plural form of homopteran.
- homosexuals — Plural form of homosexual.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- hooliganism — a ruffian or hoodlum.
- hospitalism — hospital conditions having an adverse effect on patients.
- hospitalman — an enlisted person working as a hospital assistant; corpsman.
- host family — family one lodges with
- housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
- howard moss — Howard, 1922–1987, U.S. poet, editor, and playwright.
- husk tomato — ground cherry (def 1).
- husk-tomato — ground-cherry
- hydromedusa — the medusa form of a hydrozoan.
- hylopathism — the theory that understands matter as conscious or receptive to feeling
- hyoscyamine — a poisonous alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from henbane and other solanaceous plants, used as a sedative, analgesic, mydriatic, and antispasmodic.
- hypersomnia — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- ignoramuses — Plural form of ignoramus.
- ignorantism — The support or promotion of ignorance.
- immolations — Plural form of immolation.
- immoralists — Plural form of immoralist.