9-letter words containing m, o, i
- gummosity — the quality of being gummous
- gumptious — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
- guttiform — shaped like a drop.
- gynoecium — the pistil or pistils of a flower; the female parts.
- haematoid — resembling blood
- hail from — to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome.
- hailstorm — a storm with hail.
- hairworms — Plural form of hairworm.
- hamiltons — Plural form of hamilton.
- harmdoing — the doing of harm
- harmonica — Also called mouth organ. a musical wind instrument consisting of a small rectangular case containing a set of metal reeds connected to a row of holes, over which the player places the mouth and exhales and inhales to produce the tones.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- harmonies — Plural form of harmony.
- harmonise — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmonist — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmonite — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmonium — an organlike keyboard instrument with small metal reeds and a pair of bellows operated by the player's feet.
- harmonize — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- hectorism — the character or actions of a hector
- hegemonic — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- heirlooms — Plural form of heirloom.
- helidrome — a small airport for helicopters
- heliogram — a message sent by a heliograph.
- hematosis — hematopoiesis.
- hemipodes — Plural form of hemipode.
- hemitrope — twin1 (def 5).
- hemogenia — pseudohemophilia.
- hemogenic — Of, or relating to the production of blood cells.
- hemolysin — a substance, as an antibody, that in cooperation with complement causes dissolution of red blood cells.
- hemolysis — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- hemolytic — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- hemophile — a hemophiliac.
- hemotoxic — a toxin, as cobra venom, that causes a hemolytic reaction.
- hemotoxin — a toxin, as cobra venom, that causes a hemolytic reaction.
- heroinism — an addiction to heroin
- hierogram — a sacred symbol, as an emblem, pictograph, or the like.
- hieromonk — a monk who is also a priest.
- high moby — /hi:' mohb'ee/ The high half of a 512K PDP-10's physical address space; the other half was of course the low moby. This usage has been generalised in a way that has outlasted the PDP-10; for example, at the 1990 Washington D.C. Area Science Fiction Conclave (Disclave), when a miscommunication resulted in two separate wakes being held in commemoration of the shutdown of MIT's last ITS machines, the one on the upper floor was dubbed the "high moby" and the other the "low moby". All parties involved grokked this instantly. See moby.
- himations — Plural form of himation.
- hindooism — the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.
- hippiedom — the lifestyle and world of hippies, especially in the 1960s.
- hippodame — a sea horse
- hiroshima — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: first military use of atomic bomb August 6, 1945.
- histogram — a graph of a frequency distribution in which rectangles with bases on the horizontal axis are given widths equal to the class intervals and heights equal to the corresponding frequencies.
- histotome — a microtome.
- hobohemia — A community of hoboes.
- home life — a person's life at home; private life
- home side — the team that is playing on its home ground
- home sign — any idiosyncratic system of gestural communication used by a deaf person.
- home time — time to go home