9-letter words containing n, o, h, m, e
- homefront — Alternative form of home front.
- homegoing — A voyage home.
- homegrown — grown or produced at home or in a particular region for local consumption: homegrown tomatoes.
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homeowner — a person who owns a home.
- homestand — (baseball) A series of games played at a team's home field.
- hometowns — Plural form of hometown.
- homeyness — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
- hominines — Plural form of hominine.
- homogenic — having only one alternative form, or one allele, of a gene or genes: The plagues attacked relatively homogenic populations.
- homophone — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
- honeycomb — a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
- honeymoon — a vacation or trip taken by a newly married couple.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horsemint — a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
- hot money — funds transferred suddenly from one country to another chiefly to avoid depreciation in value or to take advantage of higher interest rates.
- hoydenism — The behaviour of a hoyden.
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
- hymnodies — Plural form of hymnody.
- hyperonym — (linguistics) Hypernym; superordinate term.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- jotunheim — the outer world, or realm of giants; Utgard.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- mahometan — a name formerly in Western usage but never used among Muslims for the Muslim religion
- mantyhose — a one-piece clinging garment covering the body from the waist to the feet, worn by men
- mash note — an effusive note or letter expressing affection or passion for the recipient, usually a stranger or someone known only casually
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- megaphone — a cone-shaped device for magnifying or directing the voice, chiefly used in addressing a large audience out of doors or in calling to someone at a distance. Compare bullhorn.
- menorrhea — menstrual flow.
- mesh knot — sheet bend.
- metaphone — (algorithm, text) An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- methadone — a synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 8 ClNO, similar to morphine but effective orally, used in the relief of pain and as a heroin substitute in the treatment of heroin addiction.
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- mischosen — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mochiness — a fusty, dank, or humid condition
- mon-khmer — a group of Austroasiatic languages that includes Mon, of Burma, and Khmer, the language of Cambodia.
- monkeyish — Like a monkey.
- monoethyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) A single ethyl group in a molecule.
- monophase — (electricity) Having a single phase of alternating current.
- monorhine — an animal that has one nasal orifice
- monorhyme — a poem or stanza in which all the lines rhyme with each other.
- monowheel — A vehicle similar to a unicycle, its rider sitting within or adjacent to the single wheel.
- monteiths — Plural form of monteith.
- monthlies — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- moonphase — a phase of the moon
- moonshine — Informal. smuggled or illicitly distilled liquor, especially corn liquor as illicitly distilled chiefly in rural areas of the southern U.S.