10-letter words containing m, u, s, h
- hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
- harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniums — Plural form of harmonium.
- haustellum — (in certain crustaceans and insects) an organ or part of the proboscis adapted for sucking blood or plant juices.
- haustorium — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- hemizygous — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- hemophilus — a genus of rod-shaped, parasitic, hemophilic bacteria, certain species of which, as H. influenzae or H. suis, are pathogenic for humans and animals.
- herbariums — Plural form of herbarium.
- hexamerous — consisting of or divided into six parts.
- hieronymus — Eusebius [yoo-see-bee-uh s] /yuˈsi bi əs/ (Show IPA), Jerome, Saint.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- hologamous — of or relating to an organism having reproductive cells similar in size and structure to the somatic cells.
- home study — instruction in a subject given by mail and addressed to a student's home.
- homebuyers — Plural form of homebuyer.
- homoecious — designating or of parasites that spend their entire life cycle on one species of host
- homogamous — Botany. having flowers or florets that do not differ sexually (opposed to heterogamous). having the stamens and pistils maturing simultaneously (opposed to dichogamous).
- homogenous — Biology. corresponding in structure because of a common origin.
- homogonous — pertaining to monoclinous flowers that do not differ in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to heterogonous).
- homoiousia — The doctrine of the homoiousians.
- homologous — having the same or a similar relation; corresponding, as in relative position or structure.
- homologues — Plural form of homologue.
- homonymous — of the nature of homonyms; having the same name.
- homoousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence or substance of the Father and the Son is the same (opposed to Heteroousian).
- homosexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- homozygous — having identical pairs of genes for any given pair of hereditary characteristics.
- homunculus — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- hoodlumish — like a hoodlum
- hoodlumism — Behavior characteristic of a hoodlum.
- house mark — a trademark that appears on and identifies all of a company's products.
- house moss — dust ball or dust balls.
- house moth — either of two species of micro moth, esp the brown house moth (Hofmannophila pseudospretella) which, although it usually inhabits birds' nests, sometimes enters houses where its larvae can be very destructive of stored fabrics and foodstuffs
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- housemaker — Homemaker.
- housemates — Plural form of housemate.
- humaneness — characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of prisoners.
- humanising — Present participle of humanise.
- humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humanities — all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.
- humberside — a county in NE England. 1356 sq. mi. (3525 sq. km).
- humbleness — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humdingers — Plural form of humdinger.
- hume's law — the philosophical doctrine that an evaluative statement cannot be derived from purely factual premises, often formulated as: one can't derive an "ought" from an "is"
- humectants — Plural form of humectant.
- humicolous — of or relating to organisms that live in or on soil.
- humidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humidify.
- humidistat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- humidities — Plural form of humidity.
- humiliates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humiliate.
- humilities — the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc.
- humoralism — a theory of the composition and workings of the human body, based on the idea that it was filled with four basic substances, or humours, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.