9-letter words containing s, h, e, r, m
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- homospore — (botany) any plant producing spores of the same size and type.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horsemeat — The flesh of a horse as food.
- horsemint — a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
- houseroom — lodging or accommodation in a house.
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humorsome — Alternative form of humoursome.
- humphries — (John) Barry. born 1934, Australian comic actor and writer, best known for creating the character Dame Edna Everage
- hunkerism — a member of the conservative faction in the Democratic Party in New York State, 1845–48.
- hydrosome — the entire body of a compound hydrozoan.
- hypernyms — Plural form of hypernym.
- intermesh — any knit, woven, or knotted fabric of open texture.
- isotherms — Plural form of isotherm.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- marrakesh — a city in W Morocco.
- marsh hen — any of various rails or raillike birds.
- marshaled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshaler — (computing) A mechanism for marshalling data.
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- merchants — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- mesomorph — a person of the mesomorphic type.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- mindshare — Relative public awareness of a phenomenon.
- mirthless — gaiety or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter: the excitement and mirth of the holiday season.
- mischarge — (legal or, finance) To charge wrongly.
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
- misrhymed — badly rhymed
- morphemes — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
- morphoses — Plural form of morphosis.
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- motherers — Plural form of motherer.
- motherese — the simplified and repetitive type of speech, with exaggerated intonation and rhythm, often used by adults when speaking to babies
- mush area — a region where signals from two or more radio transmitters overlap, causing fading and distortion
- neomorphs — Plural form of neomorph.
- ohmmeters — Plural form of ohmmeter.
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- rakeshame — a shamefully dissolute person; rogue
- remscheid — a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr region.
- rest home — a residential establishment that provides special care for convalescents and aged or infirm persons.
- rest-home — a residential establishment that provides special care for convalescents and aged or infirm persons.
- rhymester — a writer of inferior verse; poetaster.
- runesmith — a student, writer, transcriber, or decipherer of runes.