11-letter words containing m, o, s, h
- harmonizers — Plural form of harmonizer.
- hatemongers — Plural form of hatemonger.
- hectometers — Plural form of hectometer.
- heliometers — Plural form of heliometer.
- helminthous — having intestinal worms
- helmsperson — A helmsman or helmswoman.
- 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.
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- hemisection — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- hemopoiesis — hematopoiesis.
- hemorrhages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hemorrhage.
- hemorrhoids — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
- hemosiderin — a yellowish-brown protein containing iron, derived chiefly from hemoglobin and found in body tissue and phagocytes, especially as the result of disorders in iron metabolism and the breakdown of red blood cells.
- hemostatics — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- heteroatoms — Plural form of heteroatom.
- heteroecism — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- highbrowism — Highbrow attitudes and policies generally.
- 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
- hippodromes — Plural form of hippodrome.
- historicism — a theory that history is determined by immutable laws and not by human agency.
- histrionism — Histrionic behaviour.
- hit or miss — careless; inattentive; haphazard: The professor criticized the hit-or-miss quality of our research.
- hit-or-miss — careless; inattentive; haphazard: The professor criticized the hit-or-miss quality of our research.
- holoenzymes — an enzyme complete in both its apoenzyme and coenzyme components.
- holophytism — the property of being holophytic
- home screen — television.
- home waters — territorial waters
- home-school — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
- homecomings — Plural form of homecoming.
- homeomerous — showing or relating to homeomery; consisting of similar parts
- 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.
- homeotherms — Plural form of homeotherm.
- homeschools — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of homeschool.
- homeshoring — A migration of service employees from the office to the home, where such homes have proper communications equipment.
- 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.
- homestretch — the straight part of a racetrack from the last turn to the finish line. Compare backstretch.
- homeworkers — Plural form of homeworker.
- homo-sexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.