9-letter words containing s, i, m, o
- gummosity — the quality of being gummous
- gumptious — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
- hailstorm — a storm with hail.
- hairworms — Plural form of hairworm.
- hamiltons — Plural form of hamilton.
- 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.
- hectorism — the character or actions of a hector
- heirlooms — Plural form of heirloom.
- hematosis — hematopoiesis.
- hemipodes — Plural form of hemipode.
- hemolysin — a substance, as an antibody, that in cooperation with complement causes dissolution of red blood cells.
- hemolysis — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- heroinism — an addiction to heroin
- himations — Plural form of himation.
- hindooism — the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.
- hiroshima — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: first military use of atomic bomb August 6, 1945.
- 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.
- histotome — a microtome.
- home side — the team that is playing on its home ground
- home sign — any idiosyncratic system of gestural communication used by a deaf person.
- homefries — Plural form of homefry.
- homegirls — Plural form of homegirl.
- homeliest — lacking in physical attractiveness; not beautiful; unattractive: a homely child.
- homesites — Plural form of homesite.
- homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
- homicides — Plural form of homicide.
- hominines — Plural form of hominine.
- hominoids — Plural form of hominoid.
- homolysis — (chemistry) The decomposition of a substance without reacting with other substances.
- homotaxis — a similarity of arrangement, as of geologic strata or fossil assemblages that have the same relative position but are not necessarily contemporaneous.
- hoodooism — the practice of or belief in voodoo.
- hormisdas — Saint, died a.d. 523, pope 514–523.
- horsemint — a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
- hospitium — a hospice.
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- hoydenism — The behaviour of a hoyden.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- humorists — Plural form of humorist.
- humourist — (British) alternative spelling of humorist.
- hylozoism — the doctrine that matter is inseparable from life, which is a property of matter.
- hymnodies — Plural form of hymnody.
- hymnodist — the singing or the composition of hymns or sacred songs.
- hypnotism — the science dealing with the induction of hypnosis.
- hypocrism — (obsolete) hypocrisy.
- ice storm — a storm of freezing rain and widespread glaze formation.
- ideograms — Plural form of ideogram.
- idiograms — Plural form of idiogram.