10-letter words containing o, h, m, s
- homosphere — The lower part of the atmosphere, up to about sixty miles, in which there is no great change in its composition.
- homostyled — (of a plant) having styles of the same form or length in all flowers.
- 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.
- honeycombs — Plural form of honeycomb.
- honeymoons — Plural form of honeymoon.
- hoodlumish — like a hoodlum
- hoodlumism — Behavior characteristic of a hoodlum.
- horse balm — a lemon-scented plant, Collinsonia canadensis, of eastern North America, having small yellow flowers.
- horse clam — gaper.
- horsewoman — a woman who rides on horseback.
- horsewomen — Plural form of horsewoman.
- 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.
- howsomever — in whatever manner, although
- humicolous — of or relating to organisms that live in or on soil.
- 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.
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- humoresque — a musical composition of humorous or capricious character.
- humoristic — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- humorously — characterized by humor; funny; comical: a humorous anecdote.
- humourless — (British spelling, Canadian) alternative spelling of humorless.
- humoursome — (archaic) Liable to humours or moods; fickle; ill-tempered.
- huntswoman — Feminine form of huntsman.
- huntswomen — Plural form of huntswoman.
- hush money — a bribe to keep someone silent about something, especially to keep the receiver from exposing a scandal.
- hyaloplasm — ground substance.
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- hydrosomal — of or relating to a hydrosome
- hylotheism — any philosophical doctrine identifying a god or gods with matter.
- hylotomous — (of insects) wood-cutting or wood-boring
- hymnodists — Plural form of hymnodist.
- hyoscyamus — the dried leaves, with or without the tops, of the henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, containing the alkaloids hyoscyamine and scopolamine, used in medicine.
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- hypocorism — a pet name.
- hypodermis — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypomnesia — Deficiency of the memory.
- hyponymous — a term that denotes a subcategory of a more general class: “Chair” and “table” are hyponyms of “furniture.”. Compare superordinate (def 4).
- hypsometer — thermobarometer (def 1).
- hypsometry — vertical control in mapping; the establishment of elevations or altitudes.
- imposthume — (obsolete) an abscess.
- impoverish — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- irish moss — a purplish-brown, cartilaginous seaweed, Chondrus crispus, of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America.
- irishwoman — a woman born in Ireland or of Irish ancestry.
- isochasmic — (of a line on a map) bounding areas of equal auroral frequency