10-letter words that end in ome
- meddlesome — given to meddling; interfering; intrusive.
- melanosome — an organelle in melanocytes that synthesizes and stores melanin.
- melon dome — a hemispherical dome with a circular base and a ribbed vault divided into individual webs, each of which has a baseline curved segmentally in plan and also curved in elevation.
- metabolome — (biochemistry, genetics) The complete set of metabolites found in a biological sample; especially that found in a person's body under normal conditions, and when suffering from a disease.
- metagenome — (genetics) all the genetic material present in an environmental sample, consisting of the genomes of many individual organisms.
- mettlesome — spirited; courageous.
- microbiome — the totality of microorganisms and their collective genetic material present in or on the human body or in another environment: The wide diversity of species that make up the microbiome is hard to fathom.
- monochrome — a painting or drawing in different shades of a single color.
- motor home — a small bus or trucklike vehicle with a roomlike area behind the driver's seat outfitted as living quarters.
- motordrome — a rounded course or track for automobile and motorcycle races.
- net income — the excess of revenues and gains of a business over expenses and losses during a given period of time.
- nettlesome — causing irritation, vexation, or annoyance: to cope with a nettlesome situation.
- nucleosome — any of the repeating subunits of chromatin occurring at intervals along a strand of DNA, consisting of DNA coiled around histone.
- onion dome — a bulbous, domelike roof ending in a sharp point, characteristically used in Russian Orthodox church architecture to cover cupolas or towers.
- orthodrome — (geometry) a great circle, or part of one.
- palindrome — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- pentastome — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- peroxisome — a cell organelle containing catalase, peroxidase, and other oxidative enzymes and performing essential metabolic functions, as the decomposition of fatty acids and hydrogen peroxide.
- pestersome — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- petrodrome — an African elephant shrew
- phlebotome — a cutting instrument used for phlebotomy.
- plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
- plasmosome — a true nucleolus, as distinguished from a karyosome.
- polychrome — being of many or various colors.
- protostome — any member of the lower invertebrate phyla in which the mouth appears before the anus during development, cleavage is spiral and determinate, and the coelom forms as a splitting of the mesoderm.
- quantasome — any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis.
- sclerotome — Embryology. the part of a mesodermal somite contributing to the development of the vertebrae and ribs.
- sheet home — to tighten the sheets of (a square sail) until it is set as flat as possible
- smart home — a dwelling equipped with systems and appliances that can be operated remotely using a computer or mobile phone
- smoke dome — the smoke chamber covering of a prefabricated metal fireplace unit.
- st.-jerome — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, NW of Montreal.
- tanglesome — tangled
- teleostome — any fish of the division Teleostomi, including all bony fish except for the chondrichthyans
- trophosome — an organ in deep-sea tube worms that is colonized by bacteria supplying the host worm with food and energy.
- tumblehome — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
- unhandsome — lacking good looks; not attractive in physical appearance; plain or ugly.
- unovercome — not overcome
- villa home — one of a set of suburban bungalows built compactly on the one allotment, esp on the former site of a single bungalow
- wintersome — (archaic) A crop, a kind of sweet sorghum.
- xylochrome — a colouring agent made from the chemical alteration of decomposed wood