9-letter words containing m, s, h, e, l
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homeliest — lacking in physical attractiveness; not beautiful; unattractive: a homely child.
- homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
- homestall — Dialect. a farmyard.
- homestyle — simple and unpretentious, evoking the comforts of home: homestyle cooking; home-style hospitality.
- humblesse — humbleness, humility, or abasement
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- hymeneals — (plurale tantum) Nuptials.
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampshell — Alternative form of lamp shell.
- 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.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- lichenism — the symbiotic association between a fungus and alga that forms a lichen
- lightsome — emitting or reflecting light; luminous.
- limehouse — a dock district in the East End of London, England, once notorious for its squalor: formerly a Chinese quarter.
- lithesome — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- loathsome — causing feelings of loathing; disgusting; revolting; repulsive: a loathsome skin disease.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
- marshaled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshaler — (computing) A mechanism for marshalling data.
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- matchless — having no equal; peerless; unequaled; incomparable: matchless courage.
- megaliths — Plural form of megalith.
- megillahs — Plural form of megillah.
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- mesophyll — the parenchyma, usually containing chlorophyll, that forms the interior parts of a leaf.
- mess hall — a place in which a group eats regularly, especially a dining hall in a military camp, post, etc.
- methylase — any of a class of enzymes that catalyse methylation
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- mightless — (obsolete) Lacking in might; weak.
- milkshake — A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.
- millhouse — a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.
- mirthless — gaiety or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter: the excitement and mirth of the holiday season.
- mishandle — to handle badly; maltreat: to mishandle a dog.
- molehills — Plural form of molehill.
- molochise — sacrifice to deity
- monthlies — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- mousehole — the burrow of a mouse.
- mouthless — Without a mouth.
- moygashel — an Irish linen
- much less — to a smaller extent, amount, or degree: less exact.
- mushmelon — muskmelon.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- schlemiel — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
- schlemihl — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
- schmeling — Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1905–2005, German boxer: world heavyweight champion 1930–32.