9-letter words containing m, i, h, r
- hydramine — an amine derived from a glycol in which one hydroxyl is replaced by an amino group.
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.
- hyperemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hyperemic — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hypericum — A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the St. John’s worts and rose of Sharon.
- hypermile — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- hypocrism — (obsolete) hypocrisy.
- ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.
- imambarah — a building, rooms, etc., used by Shiʿites for ceremonies, especially during the first 10 days of Muharram.
- inchworms — Plural form of inchworm.
- inharmony — Lack of harmony.
- intermesh — any knit, woven, or knotted fabric of open texture.
- ironsmith — a worker in iron; blacksmith.
- isomorphs — Plural form of isomorph.
- isorhythm — a structural feature characteristic of the Ars Nova motet, consisting of a single rhythmic phrase pattern repeated, usually in the tenor, throughout the composition.
- isotherms — Plural form of isotherm.
- kamarhati — a city in West Bengal state, in NE India, a suburb of Kolkata.
- khwarizmi — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- kriemhild — the wife of Siegfried and the sister of Gunther.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- lcm chair — Eames chair (def 1).
- logarithm — the exponent of the power to which a base number must be raised to equal a given number; log: 2 is the logarithm of 100 to the base 10 (2 = log10 100).
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- maharanis — Plural form of maharani.
- maharishi — a teacher of spiritual and mystical knowledge; religious sage: often used as an honorary title.
- manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- marchlike — (music) Resembling a march.
- mariachis — Plural form of mariachi.
- mariehamn — a seaport on S Åland Island, in the Baltic.
- marigraph — a device that automatically registers the rise and fall of the tide.
- marihuana — hemp (def 1).
- markevich — Igor [ee-guh r] /ˈi gər/ (Show IPA), 1912–83, Russian conductor and composer.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- marsh tit — a small European songbird, Parus palustris, with a black head and greyish-brown body: family Paridae (tits)
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- martyrish — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- mata hari — (Gertrud Margarete Zelle) 1876–1917, Dutch dancer in France: executed as a spy by the French.
- matchgirl — A girl who sold matches on the streets.
- matriarch — the female head of a family or tribal line.
- mayorship — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- mermithid — (zoology) Any member of the Mermithidae.
- microchip — chip1 (def 5).
- microinch — a unit of length equal to one millionth of an inch. Symbol: μin.
- microlith — a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- microthin — extremely or, sometimes, microscopically thin: a microthin layer of aluminum.
- mindshare — Relative public awareness of a phenomenon.
- minorship — the state of being a minor