9-letter words containing t, h, a, m
- head them — to toss the coins in a game of two-up
- healthism — The use of propaganda and coercion (as by government or advertising) to impose established norms of health.
- heart cam — Machinery. a cam with a single lobe having the general shape of a heart.
- heartsome — giving cheer, spirit, or courage: a heartsome wine.
- heartworm — a parasitic nematode, Dirofilaria immitis, transmitted by mosquito and invading the heart and pulmonary arteries of dogs, wolves, and foxes throughout its range in tropical, subtropical and, more recently, temperate regions around the world.
- heat lamp — a lamp fitted with an infrared bulb to supply heat especially as part of physical therapy.
- heat pump — a device that uses a compressible refrigerant to transfer heat from one body, as the ground, air, or water, to another body, as a building, with the process being reversible.
- heat-moon — William Least [leest] /list/ (Show IPA), (William Trogden) born 1939, U.S. writer.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- hectogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- hektogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- helpmates — (British) Plural form of helpmate.
- hematinic — a medicine, as a compound of iron, that tends to increase the amount of hematin or hemoglobin in the blood.
- hematitic — Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.
- hematomas — (US) Plural form of hematoma (Alternative spelling of haematomas).
- hematosis — hematopoiesis.
- hematozoa — Plural form of hematozoon.
- hematuria — the presence of blood in the urine.
- hemelytra — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- hemiptera — the order comprising the true bugs.
- hemoblast — hematoblast.
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
- hempstead — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- hepatomas — Plural form of hepatoma.
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- hermitage — the habitation of a hermit.
- hetaerism — concubinage.
- hetairism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- hetmanate — the authority, rule, or domain of a hetman.
- hexameter — a dactylic line of six feet, as in Greek and Latin epic poetry, in which the first four feet are dactyls or spondees, the fifth is ordinarily a dactyl, and the last is a trochee or spondee, with a caesura usually following the long syllable in the third foot.
- himations — Plural form of himation.
- himyarite — one of an ancient people of southern Arabia speaking a Semitic language.
- 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.
- home team — a team which is playing on its own ground
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- homeopath — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
- 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.
- homograft — allograft.
- homotaxis — a similarity of arrangement, as of geologic strata or fossil assemblages that have the same relative position but are not necessarily contemporaneous.
- homotypal — of normal type
- horsemeat — The flesh of a horse as food.
- hot metal — metallic type and printing elements produced by a casting machine; foundry type.
- housemate — a person with whom one shares a house or other residence.
- humanists — Plural form of humanist.
- humectant — a substance that absorbs or helps another substance retain moisture, as glycerol.
- humectate — to humect ie to moisten, to wet