9-letter words containing s, h, a, m, i
- empathies — Plural form of empathy.
- empathise — (British) alternative spelling of empathize.
- emphasise — (British) alternative spelling of emphasize.
- emphasize — Give special importance or prominence to (something) in speaking or writing.
- emphatics — Plural form of emphatic.
- famishing — Present participle of famish.
- fish farm — a facility in which fish are bred for commercial purposes.
- fish meal — dried fish ground for use as fertilizer, animal feed, or an ingredient in other foods.
- fisherman — a person who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
- fishwoman — (dated) A woman who sells fish.
- flamefish — a cardinalfish, Apogon maculatus, of Atlantic coastal waters from Florida to Brazil.
- fukushima — a city on N Honshu, in N Japan.
- game fish — an edible fish capable of affording sport to the angler in its capture.
- gandhiism — the principles associated with Mohandas Gandhi, especially his principles of noncooperation and passive resistance in gaining political and social reforms.
- gilgamesh — a legendary Sumerian king, the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics.
- gladsheim — the golden palace of Odin, of which Valhalla was a part.
- hailstorm — a storm with hail.
- hairworms — Plural form of hairworm.
- halftimes — Plural form of halftime.
- hamamelis — (botany) Any of the flowering plant genus Hamamelis, the witch hazels.
- hamfisted — clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed: a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.
- hamiltons — Plural form of hamilton.
- hamminess — The state of being hammy.
- hampshire — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hamstring — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handmaids — Plural form of handmaid.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- harmonies — Plural form of harmony.
- harmonise — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmonist — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- hashemite — (mineral) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing barium, chromium, oxygen, and sulfur.
- hashimite — a member of any Arab dynasty in the Middle East founded by Husein ibn-Ali or his descendants.
- hassidism — the principles and practices of the Hasidim.
- healthism — The use of propaganda and coercion (as by government or advertising) to impose established norms of health.
- hematosis — hematopoiesis.
- hemispace — the area to either the right or left side of the body
- herbalism — The study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, now especially as a form of alternative medicine.
- hetaerism — concubinage.
- hetairism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- high mass — a Mass celebrated according to the complete rite, in which the liturgy is sung by the celebrant.
- himalayas — the, a mountain range extending about 1500 miles (2400 km) along the border between India and Tibet. Highest peak, Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet (8848 meters).
- himations — Plural form of himation.
- hiroshima — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: first military use of atomic bomb August 6, 1945.
- hispanism — a movement in Latin America for the promotion of Spanish or of native culture and influence. Compare hispanidad.
- histamine — Biochemistry, Physiology. a heterocyclic amine, C 5 H 9 N 3 , released by mast cells when tissue is injured or in allergic and inflammatory reactions, causing dilation of small blood vessels and smooth muscle contraction.
- histogram — a graph of a frequency distribution in which rectangles with bases on the horizontal axis are given widths equal to the class intervals and heights equal to the corresponding frequencies.
- homotaxis — a similarity of arrangement, as of geologic strata or fossil assemblages that have the same relative position but are not necessarily contemporaneous.
- hormisdas — Saint, died a.d. 523, pope 514–523.
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.