10-letter words containing em
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- hemizygote — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- hemizygous — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- hemochrome — the red coloring matter of the blood.
- hemocyanin — a blue, copper-containing respiratory pigment in the plasma of many invertebrates.
- hemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
- hemolysins — Plural form of hemolysin.
- hemophilia — any of several X-linked genetic disorders, symptomatic chiefly in males, in which excessive bleeding occurs owing to the absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood.
- hemophilic — characteristic of or affected by hemophilia.
- hemophilus — a genus of rod-shaped, parasitic, hemophilic bacteria, certain species of which, as H. influenzae or H. suis, are pathogenic for humans and animals.
- hemophobia — an abnormal fear of blood.
- hemoptysis — the expectoration of blood or bloody mucus.
- hemorrhage — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- hemorrhoid — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
- hemostasis — the stoppage of bleeding.
- hemostatic — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- hemothorax — (medicine) A condition resulting from accumulation of blood in the pleural cavity.
- hexaemeron — the six days of the Creation.
- hla system — human leucocyte antigen system; a group of the most important antigens responsible for tissue compatibility, together with the genes that encode them. For tissue and organ transplantation to be successful there needs to be a minimum number of HLA differences between the donor's and recipient's tissue
- hobohemian — Of, or pertaining to, a hobohemia.
- homemakers — Plural form of homemaker.
- homemaking — the establishment or management of a home; duties of a homemaker.
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- housemaker — Homemaker.
- housemates — Plural form of housemate.
- hyperaemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hyporchema — a lively choral ode sung in ancient Greece in honor of Apollo or Dionysus.
- hypoxaemia — Alternative spelling of hypoxemia.
- hypoxaemic — Alternative form of hypoxemic.
- idempotent — unchanged when multiplied by itself.
- ill temper — bad or irritable disposition.
- imagemaker — a person, as a publicist, who specializes in creating images for companies, political candidates, etc.
- immemorial — extending back beyond memory, record, or knowledge: from time immemorial.
- immurement — to enclose within walls.
- impalement — to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
- implements — Plural form of implement.
- incasement — the act of encasing.
- incitement — the act of inciting.
- inclemency — (of the weather, the elements, etc.) severe, rough, or harsh; stormy.
- increments — Plural form of increment.
- indemnitee — a person or company that receives indemnity.
- indemnitor — a person or company that gives indemnity.
- inditement — to compose or write, as a poem.
- inducement — the act of inducing.
- ingeminate — to repeat; reiterate.
- inseminate — to inject semen into (the female reproductive tract); impregnate.
- intemerate — inviolate; undefiled; unsullied; pure.
- intonement — The act or process of intoning.
- invitement — the act of enticing or attracting
- irremeable — permitting no return to the original place or condition; irreversible.