11-letter words containing m, h, o, r
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- limber hole — any of a series of holes pierced through a frame or floor to allow the passage of accumulated moisture.
- lithochromy — the art or practice of painting on stone
- lithometeor — a mass of dry particles suspended in the atmosphere, as dust or haze.
- logarithmic — pertaining to a logarithm or logarithms.
- lone mother — a mother with no husband or partner, who is bringing up a child or children
- lord cobham — title of Sir John Oldcastle
- luminophore — a molecule or group of molecules that emits light when illuminated.
- lunar month — month (def 5).
- lunar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- machinators — Plural form of machinator.
- macrographs — Plural form of macrograph.
- macrography — examination or study of an object with the naked eye (opposed to micrography).
- macrophages — Plural form of macrophage.
- macrophagic — Of or pertaining to macrophages.
- macrophylum — a group of languages that are of a higher order than a phylum
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- macrophytic — Relating to macrophytes.
- mammography — x-ray photography of a breast, especially for detection of tumors.
- manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
- marathonian — a native or inhabitant of Marathon.
- marathoning — the sport of running marathons
- march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
- march-order — to prepare (personnel, arms, and equipment) for a march.
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- marlborough — John Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
- marshmallow — a sweetened paste or confection made from the mucilaginous root of the marsh mallow.
- marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
- maryborough — a seaport in E Australia.
- mashie iron — a club with an iron head, the face having more slope than a mid-mashie but less slope than a mashie.
- matchboards — Plural form of matchboard.
- mechatronic — relating to mechatronics
- megohmmeter — an instrument for measuring large resistances, especially the resistance of insulation.
- melanochroi — a postulated subdivision of the Caucasoid race, characterized by dark hair and pale complexion
- melanophore — a pigmented connective-tissue cell containing melanin in its cytoplasm, responsible for color changes in many fishes and reptiles.
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- memory chip — In a computer, the memory chip is the microchip in which information is stored.
- menorrhagia — excessive menstrual discharge.
- meromorphic — of or relating to a function that is analytic, except for poles, in a given domain.
- merthiolate — thimerosal
- mesomorphic — 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).
- mesonephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.
- mesonephros — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.
- mesospheric — Of or pertaining to the mesosphere.
- mesotherapy — a cosmetic procedure in which minute doses of medication, vitamins, etc, are injected repeatedly into the mesodermal tissue under the skin to promote fat loss
- mesothorium — one of two radioactive decay products of thorium, an isotope of radium or actinium.
- mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
- metachronal — Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
- metamorphic — pertaining to or characterized by change of form, or metamorphosis.