10-letter words containing r, h, e, o, m
- overcometh — Archaic third-person singular form of overcome.
- overmighty — too forceful
- phanerogam — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phelloderm — a layer of parenchyma produced inwardly by the cork cambium; an inner secondary cortex of the cork cambium.
- phenformin — a biguanide administered orally in the treatment of diabetes to lower blood concentrations of glucose; it has been largely superseded by metformin. Formula: C10H15N5
- pheromonal — relating to or constituting a pheromone
- pheromones — any chemical substance released by an animal that serves to influence the physiology or behavior of other members of the same species.
- phlebogram — venogram.
- phloem ray — a vascular ray extending into or located entirely within the secondary phloem.
- phonometer — a device for measuring the intensity of a sound.
- photometer — an instrument that measures luminous intensity or brightness, luminous flux, light distribution, color, etc., usually by comparing the light emitted by two sources, one source having certain specified standard characteristics.
- photometry — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
- polychrome — being of many or various colors.
- prehominid — any of the extinct humanlike primates classified in the former family Prehominidae.
- prohormone — the inactive precursor molecule from which a hormone is derived.
- promethean — of or suggestive of Prometheus.
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- promethium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element. Symbol: Pm; atomic number: 61.
- regal moth — a large moth, Citheronia regalis, having yellow spots on gray to olive forewings and on orange-red hind wings.
- rhabdomere — one of the many parts that makes up a rhabdom
- rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
- rhomboides — a rhomboid
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- roche alum — an alumlike substance derived from alunite.
- rothermere — 1st Viscount, Harold Sidney Harmsworth.
- routemarch — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semichorus — half of a chorus; part of a chorus to be sung by a portion but not all of the singers
- shoe cream — cream for polishing shoes
- short game — the aspect of golf considered in relation to the ability of a player to hit medium or short shots, as chip shots, pitch shots, and putts, with accuracy. Compare long game (def 1).
- short ream — 480 sheets of paper
- short time — a period or schedule during which the number of working hours is reduced: The recession has put most of the manufacturing plants on short time.
- short-term — covering or applying to a relatively short period of time.
- shrew mole — a grayish-black mole, Neurotrichus gibbsii, of the western coast of the U.S. and Canada, that grows to a length of about 3 inches (7.6 cm).
- shrewmouse — a shrew.
- skeuomorph — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- smart home — a dwelling equipped with systems and appliances that can be operated remotely using a computer or mobile phone
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smoothbore — (of firearms) having a bore that is smooth; not rifled.
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- somewheres — in or at some place not specified, determined, or known: They live somewhere in Michigan.
- sphenogram — a cuneiform character.
- stenotherm — an organism that is only able to live within a narrow parameter of temperatures
- stepmother — the wife of one's father by a later marriage.
- supermacho — extremely macho
- tachometer — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tachometry — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tchernosem — chernozem.
- the former — the first or first mentioned of two: distinguished from latter