11-letter words containing r, m, e, t, h
- foremothers — Plural form of foremother.
- foster home — a household in which a child is raised by someone other than its natural or adoptive parent.
- furnishment — (obsolete) The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture.
- furtherment — The act or process of furthering; furtherance.
- furthermore — moreover; besides; in addition: Furthermore, he left orders not to be disturbed.
- furthermost — most distant: Their house is furthermost on the right.
- furthersome — tending to further or promote; helpful
- game theory — a mathematical theory that deals with strategies for maximizing gains and minimizing losses within prescribed constraints, as the rules of a card game: widely applied in the solution of various decision-making problems, as those of military strategy and business policy.
- gametophore — a part or structure bearing gametangia.
- garnishment — Law. a warning, served on a third party to hold, subject to the court's direction, money or property belonging to a debtor who is being sued by a creditor. a summons to a third party to appear in litigation pending between a creditor and debtor.
- geoisotherm — isogeotherm.
- germ theory — Pathology. the theory that infectious diseases are due to the agency of germs or microorganisms.
- gomphothere — Any of the extinct proboscideans of the family Gomphotheriidae, that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Miocene and Pliocene (12\u20141.6 million years ago), and latterly also in South America (around 3 million to 9100 years ago).
- grandmother — the mother of one's father or mother.
- grangemouth — a port in Scotland, in Falkirk council area: now Scotland's second port, with oil refineries, shipyards, and chemical industries. Pop: 17 771 (2001)
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- haematocrit — Alternative spelling of hematocrit.
- haemothorax — Alternative form of hemothorax.
- hammercloth — a cloth covering for the driver's seat on a horse-drawn carriage.
- hammersmith — a borough of Greater London, England.
- hammerstein — Oscar, 1847?–1919, U.S. theatrical manager, born in Germany.
- hammerstone — an ancient stone tool used as a hammer, as for chipping flint, processing food, or breaking up bones.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- harassments — Plural form of harassment.
- hardmouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- harem pants — a kind of baggy trousers worn by women, made of lightweight fabric and closefitting at the ankles
- harvesttime — the time of year when a crop or crops are harvested, especially autumn.
- hatemongers — Plural form of hatemonger.
- haute-marne — a department in E France. 2416 sq. mi. (6255 sq. km). Capital: Chaumont.
- headmasters — Plural form of headmaster.
- headstreams — Plural form of headstream.
- health farm — A health farm is a hotel where people go to get fitter or lose weight by exercising and eating special food.
- heat cramps — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
- hectometers — Plural form of hectometer.
- heliometers — Plural form of heliometer.
- heliometric — Of or relating to the heliometer, or to heliometry.
- hellgramite — The aquatic larval form of the dobsonfly, having a segmented body with legs on each segment, and a head with prominent pincers, prized as fish bait.
- hemathermal — warm-blooded; homoiothermal.
- hematocryal — cold-blooded; poikilothermal.
- hemeprotein — (protein) Any conjugated protein containing heme as the prosthetic group.
- hemerythrin — a type of protein responsible for oxygen transportation in some marine invertebrates
- hemielytron — hemelytron.
- hemihydrate — a hydrate in which there are two molecules of the compound for each molecule of water.
- hemipterans — Plural form of hemipteran.
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- hemiterpene — (originally) any of a class of monocyclic hydrocarbons of the formula C 10 H 16 , obtained from plants.
- hemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemeprotein.
- hemotherapy — therapy by means of blood, serum, or plasma transfusion.
- hemotrophic — the material from the maternal bloodstream and placenta that nourishes a mammalian embryo.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.