9-letter words containing m, a, t, e
- hang time — the length of time that a football remains in the air after being kicked.
- haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
- hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hardiment — hardihood.
- harlemite — a native or inhabitant of Harlem.
- harmonite — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmotome — a zeolite mineral related to stilbite, occurring in twinned crystals.
- hashemite — (mineral) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing barium, chromium, oxygen, and sulfur.
- hashimite — a member of any Arab dynasty in the Middle East founded by Husein ibn-Ali or his descendants.
- hatchment — a square tablet, set diagonally, bearing the coat of arms of a deceased person.
- hate mail — letters, telegrams, etc., that express prejudice or disagreement in abusive or threatening terms.
- haymarket — a famous London market 1644–1830.
- hazemeter — transmissometer.
- head smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by a dark-brown, powdery mass of spores replacing the affected seed heads, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Sorosporium, Sphacelotheca, and Ustilago.
- head them — to toss the coins in a game of two-up
- healthism — The use of propaganda and coercion (as by government or advertising) to impose established norms of health.
- heart cam — Machinery. a cam with a single lobe having the general shape of a heart.
- heartsome — giving cheer, spirit, or courage: a heartsome wine.
- heartworm — a parasitic nematode, Dirofilaria immitis, transmitted by mosquito and invading the heart and pulmonary arteries of dogs, wolves, and foxes throughout its range in tropical, subtropical and, more recently, temperate regions around the world.
- heat lamp — a lamp fitted with an infrared bulb to supply heat especially as part of physical therapy.
- heat pump — a device that uses a compressible refrigerant to transfer heat from one body, as the ground, air, or water, to another body, as a building, with the process being reversible.
- heat-moon — William Least [leest] /list/ (Show IPA), (William Trogden) born 1939, U.S. writer.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- hectogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- hektogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- helpmates — (British) Plural form of helpmate.
- hematinic — a medicine, as a compound of iron, that tends to increase the amount of hematin or hemoglobin in the blood.
- hematitic — Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.
- hematomas — (US) Plural form of hematoma (Alternative spelling of haematomas).
- hematosis — hematopoiesis.
- hematozoa — Plural form of hematozoon.
- hematuria — the presence of blood in the urine.
- hemelytra — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- hemiptera — the order comprising the true bugs.
- hemoblast — hematoblast.
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
- hempstead — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- hepatomas — Plural form of hepatoma.
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- hermitage — the habitation of a hermit.
- hetaerism — concubinage.
- hetairism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- hetmanate — the authority, rule, or domain of a hetman.
- hexameter — a dactylic line of six feet, as in Greek and Latin epic poetry, in which the first four feet are dactyls or spondees, the fifth is ordinarily a dactyl, and the last is a trochee or spondee, with a caesura usually following the long syllable in the third foot.
- himyarite — one of an ancient people of southern Arabia speaking a Semitic language.
- histamine — Biochemistry, Physiology. a heterocyclic amine, C 5 H 9 N 3 , released by mast cells when tissue is injured or in allergic and inflammatory reactions, causing dilation of small blood vessels and smooth muscle contraction.
- home team — a team which is playing on its own ground
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- homeopath — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
- homestall — Dialect. a farmyard.