11-letter words containing s, t, m, i, h
- 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.
- hemisecting — Present participle of hemisect.
- hemisection — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- hemistichal — of or relating to a hemistich
- hemostatics — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- hemstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of hemstitch.
- hemstitches — Plural form of hemstitch.
- hermeticism — the body of ideas set forth in Hermetic writings.
- hetaerismic — of or relating to courtesans
- hetairismic — relating to hetairism, concubinage
- heteroecism — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- hexametrist — a person who writes in hexameters
- hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
- hippodamist — a horse-tamer
- hipsterisms — a usually young person who is trendy, stylish, or progressive in an unconventional way; someone who is hip.
- histaminase — an enzyme that catalyzes the decomposition of histamine, used in treating allergies.
- historicism — a theory that history is determined by immutable laws and not by human agency.
- histrionism — Histrionic behaviour.
- hit batsman — a batter who, having been struck by a pitch, is awarded first base.
- hit or miss — careless; inattentive; haphazard: The professor criticized the hit-or-miss quality of our research.
- hit-or-miss — careless; inattentive; haphazard: The professor criticized the hit-or-miss quality of our research.
- holophytism — the property of being holophytic
- homeostasis — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- homeostatic — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- homoplastic — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- hospitalism — hospital conditions having an adverse effect on patients.
- hospitalman — an enlisted person working as a hospital assistant; corpsman.
- host family — family one lodges with
- hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- humidistats — Plural form of humidistat.
- humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
- hylopathism — the theory that understands matter as conscious or receptive to feeling
- hymnologist — A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology.
- hypoosmotic — Hypotonic.
- hypsometric — Of or relating to the use of the hypsometer; hypsographic.
- in the mass — in the main; collectively
- in the swim — to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
- intermeshed — Simple past tense and past participle of intermesh.
- intermeshes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermesh.
- isallotherm — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature variations within a given period of time.
- isogeotherm — an imaginary line connecting all points within the earth having the same mean temperature.
- isorhythmic — a structural feature characteristic of the Ars Nova motet, consisting of a single rhythmic phrase pattern repeated, usually in the tenor, throughout the composition.
- itsukushima — an island off the SW coast of Japan, in the Inland Sea: ancient Shinto shrine.
- khmelnitsky — a city in W Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
- kirby-smith — Edmund, 1824–93, Confederate general in the American Civil War.
- light music — music for popular entertainment
- lightsomely — (archaic) In a lightsome manner.
- lithodomous — living in rock or stone