11-letter words containing am
- h-r diagram — Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
- hack hammer — an adzlike tool for dressing stone.
- hamate bone — a wedgelike bone on the side of the wrist connecting the wrist with the fourth and fifth metacarpals, which connect to the ring and little fingers
- hamba kahle — goodbye, farewell (esp to the dead)
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- hamiltonian — pertaining to or advocating Hamiltonianism.
- hamiticized — exhibiting the characteristics of or influenced by speakers of Hamitic.
- hammer away — If you hammer away at a task or activity, you work at it constantly and with great energy.
- hammer beam — a short wooden beam projecting from an interior wall to support or tie together rafters or arched roof braces.
- hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
- hammer down — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- hammer mill — a mill for breaking up ore or crushing coal.
- hammer pond — an artificial pond for maintaining a head of water at a water mill.
- hammercloth — a cloth covering for the driver's seat on a horse-drawn carriage.
- hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
- hammersmith — a borough of Greater London, England.
- hammerstein — Oscar, 1847?–1919, U.S. theatrical manager, born in Germany.
- hammerstone — an ancient stone tool used as a hammer, as for chipping flint, processing food, or breaking up bones.
- hamstringed — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- harmonogram — the image produced by a harmonograph
- headstreams — Plural form of headstream.
- health camp — a camp, usually at the seaside, for children requiring health care
- heat cramps — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
- heavy cream — thick cream having a high percentage of butterfat.
- hellgramite — The aquatic larval form of the dobsonfly, having a segmented body with legs on each segment, and a head with prominent pincers, prized as fish bait.
- hemodynamic — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptameters — Plural form of heptameter.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- hexametrist — a person who writes in hexameters
- hexametrize — to write or put into hexameters
- higashiyama — of or relating to the period of Japanese art history, especially during the second half of the 15th century, influenced by Zen Buddhism and characterized by architectural simplicity and monochrome painting.
- high fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- hippocampal — of or relating to the hippocampus.
- hippocampus — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
- hippodamist — a horse-tamer
- hippodamous — horse-taming
- hippopotami — a large herbivorous mammal, Hippopotamus amphibius, having a thick hairless body, short legs, and a large head and muzzle, found in and near the rivers, lakes, etc., of Africa, and able to remain under water for a considerable time.
- hiram maxim — Hiram Percy, 1869–1936, U.S. inventor.
- histaminase — an enzyme that catalyzes the decomposition of histamine, used in treating allergies.
- holy family — a representation in art of Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus.
- homogametic — producing only one type of gamete with respect to sex chromosomes.
- host family — family one lodges with
- hyoscyamine — a poisonous alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from henbane and other solanaceous plants, used as a sedative, analgesic, mydriatic, and antispasmodic.
- hypodynamia — diminished strength; adynamia.
- hypodynamic — diminished strength; adynamia.
- hypothalami — Plural form of hypothalamus.
- ice rampart — a mound of earth or stones formed by the action of ice against the shore of a lake, stream, etc.
- ideogrammic — Being, or pertaining to, an ideogram.
- idiodynamic — of, relating to, or conforming to the theories of idiodynamics.