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12-letter words containing o, m, e

  • hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
  • hall of fame — a national shrine in New York City commemorating the names of outstanding Americans.
  • halogen lamp — a gas-filled, high-intensity incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament and containing a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine, that vaporizes on heating and redeposits any evaporated tungsten particles back onto the filament: used especially in motion-picture projectors and automobile headlights.
  • hambletonian — one of a superior strain of American trotting horses descended from the stallion Hambletonian.
  • hammer throw — a field event in which the hammer is thrown for distance.
  • hamming code — (algorithm)   Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
  • hand-me-down — an article of clothing passed on to another person after being used, outgrown, etc.: The younger children wore the hand-me-downs of the older ones.
  • handsomeness — The quality of being handsome.
  • harbormaster — A harbormaster is the official in charge of a harbor.
  • hard-mouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
  • harmonizable — That can be harmonized.
  • harmonometer — the equipment used for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds
  • harvest home — the bringing home of the harvest.
  • harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
  • have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
  • headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
  • heavy bomber — a large plane capable of carrying heavy bomb loads for long distances, especially at high altitudes.
  • hebdomadally — taking place, coming together, or published once every seven days; weekly: hebdomadal meetings; hebdomadal groups; hebdomadal journals.
  • hegemonistic — the policy or practice of hegemony to serve national interests.
  • heliotropism — heliotropic tendency or growth.
  • helmspersons — Plural form of helmsperson.
  • hemangiomata — See under angioma.
  • hemarthrosis — (pathology) bleeding in the joints.
  • hematoblasts — Plural form of hematoblast.
  • hematochezia — the passage of bloody stools.
  • hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
  • hematogenous — originating in the blood.
  • hematologist — the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs.
  • hematophobia — Fear of bleeding or the sight of blood.
  • hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
  • hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
  • hemimetaboly — Hemimetabolism.
  • hemimorphism — The condition of being hemimorphic.
  • hemimorphite — a hydrous zinc silicate mineral, Zn 4 (OH) 2 Si 2 O 7 ⋅H 2 O, occurring in clear, colorless orthorhombic crystals; calamine: an ore of zinc.
  • hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
  • hemiscotosis — hemianopsia.
  • hemispheroid — half of a spheroid.
  • hemodialyses — Plural form of hemodialysis.
  • hemodialysis — dialysis of the blood, especially with an artificial kidney, for the removal of waste products.
  • hemodialyzer — artificial kidney.
  • hemodilution — a decreased concentration of cells and solids in blood, usually caused by an influx of fluid.
  • hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
  • hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
  • hemophilioid — (of a disease) resembling hemophilia, but having a different genetic or acquired cause.
  • hemopoiesis' — hematopoiesis.
  • hemorheology — The science of the rheological (especially flow) properties of the blood.
  • hemorrhaging — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
  • hemorrhoidal — 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)
  • hemotoxicity — Toxicity that affects the blood (especially that affects red blood cells).
  • hepatomegaly — an abnormal enlargement of the liver, usually associated with liver disease or heart failure.
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