9-letter words containing s, h, a, m
- handstamp — an implement for stamping an impression
- hard mass — Jewelry. a hard glass used for imitating gemstones.
- 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.
- harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
- hash mark — Informal. a service stripe. the symbol #.
- 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.
- hasmonean — a member of a priestly family of Jewish rulers and leaders in Judea in the 1st and 2nd centuries b.c.
- hassidism — the principles and practices of the Hasidim.
- haussmann — Georges Eugène [zhawrzh œ-zhen] /ʒɔrʒ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1809–91, French administrator who improved the landscaping, street designs, and utilities systems of Paris.
- hawksmoor — Nicholas, 1661–1736, English architect.
- haymakers — Plural form of haymaker.
- head smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by a dark-brown, powdery mass of spores replacing the affected seed heads, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Sorosporium, Sphacelotheca, and Ustilago.
- headlamps — Plural form of headlamp.
- healthism — The use of propaganda and coercion (as by government or advertising) to impose established norms of health.
- heartsome — giving cheer, spirit, or courage: a heartsome wine.
- hebdomads — Plural form of hebdomad.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- helpmates — (British) Plural form of helpmate.
- hematomas — (US) Plural form of hematoma (Alternative spelling of haematomas).
- hematosis — hematopoiesis.
- hemispace — the area to either the right or left side of the body
- hemoblast — hematoblast.
- hempstead — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- hepatomas — Plural form of hepatoma.
- 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.
- hexagrams — Plural form of hexagram.
- 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.
- holograms — Plural form of hologram.
- home base — Baseball. home plate.
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homestall — Dialect. a farmyard.
- homestand — (baseball) A series of games played at a team's home field.
- homestays — Plural form of homestay.
- homestead — a town in S Florida.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homotaxis — a similarity of arrangement, as of geologic strata or fossil assemblages that have the same relative position but are not necessarily contemporaneous.