10-letter words containing r, h, e, o, m
- microtherm — a plant requiring a minimum of heat for growth.
- mimeograph — a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
- moa hunter — the name given by anthropologists to the early Māori inhabitants of New Zealand
- mocha ware — a pottery ware of the late 18th through the early 20th centuries, ornamented with colored glaze worked into branchlike patterns by drops of a diffusing agent applied while the glaze is still wet.
- monarchies — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- monarchize — to carry out the duties or functions of a monarch
- monochrome — a painting or drawing in different shades of a single color.
- monorhymed — rhymed on a single rhyme
- montrachet — a dry white wine of N Burgundy
- moonshiner — a person who distills or sells liquor, especially corn liquor, illegally.
- more-welsh — of or relating to Wales, its people, or their language.
- morgenthau — Henry, 1856–1946, U.S. financier and diplomat, born in Germany.
- morphemics — the study of the classification, description, and functions of morphemes; morphology.
- morphodite — (informal, slang) A comic slang version of hermaphrodite.
- morphogene — (genetics) Any gene that is involved in growth or in morphogenesis.
- morphogens — Plural form of morphogen.
- morphogeny — a biological term denoting the origin and development of morphological forms
- morpholine — a colorless, hygroscopic liquid, C 4 H 9 NO, used chiefly as a solvent for dyes, resins, and waxes.
- mother hen — a person who attends to the welfare of others, especially one who is fussily protective.
- mother wit — natural or practical intelligence, wit, or sense.
- mother yaw — the initial lesion of yaws, occurring at the site of inoculation.
- motherhood — the state of being a mother; maternity.
- motherland — one's native land.
- motherless — a female parent.
- motherlike — Having the quality or suggestive of a mother; maternal, motherly.
- motherload — A very large amount of something valuable.
- motherlode — (literally) The main, central lode of a natural resource, near which smaller deposits of the same ore etc. exist.
- mothership — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- motherwell — Robert, 1915–91, U.S. painter.
- motherwort — a European plant, Leonorus cardiaca, of the mint family, an introduced weed in the U.S., having cut leaves with a whorl of lavender flowers in the axils.
- motor home — a small bus or trucklike vehicle with a roomlike area behind the driver's seat outfitted as living quarters.
- murtherous — (archaic) Intending, or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty or homicidal.
- mushroomed — Simple past tense and past participle of mushroom.
- mushroomer — a person who picks mushrooms
- myotherapy — A form of manual medicine focusing on the diagnosis, treatment and management of musculoskeletal pain.
- mythologer — A mythologist.
- nameworthy — worthy of or deserving a name
- nephometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of cloud cover in the sky.
- nephrotomy — incision into the kidney, as for the removal of a calculus.
- nethermore — (archaic, rare) farther down; lower.
- nethermost — lowest; farthest down: the nethermost depths of the ocean.
- neurohumor — neurotransmitter
- nomarchies — Plural form of nomarchy.
- nonthermal — Not thermal; not produced by heat.
- ombrophile — a plant which survives well or flourishes in rainy conditions
- ombrophobe — a plant which does not survive in or tolerate rainy conditions
- orchectomy — orchiectomy.
- orthodrome — (geometry) a great circle, or part of one.
- orthometry — The art or practice of constructing verses correctly; the laws of correct poetry.
- outmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of outmarch.