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11-letter words containing c, h, o, m, s

  • mustachioed — a mustache.
  • muttonchops — The whiskers on a man's cheek when shaped like a meat chop, narrow at the top and broad and rounded at the bottom.
  • mycophagist — a fungus-eating organism.
  • mycophagous — feeding on fungi.
  • mycorrhizas — Plural form of mycorrhiza.
  • nimzowitsch — Aaron Isayevich (ɪˈzaɪjɛvɪtʃ) 1886–1935, Latvian chess player and theorist; influential in enunciating the principles of the hypermodern school, of which he was the main instigator
  • not so much — less
  • phonematics — phonemics.
  • phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
  • photomosaic — mosaic (def 4).
  • pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
  • polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
  • polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
  • prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
  • psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.
  • psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
  • psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
  • psychomotor — of or relating to a response involving both motor and psychological components.
  • psychonomic — of or relating to psychonomics
  • ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
  • rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
  • rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
  • scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
  • scheme-to-c — (language)   A Scheme compiler written in C that emits C and is embeddable in C. Scheme-to-C was written by Joel Bartlett of Digital Western Research Laboratory. Version 15mar93 translates a superset of Revised**4 Scheme to C that is then compiled by the native C compiler for the target machine. This design results in a portable system that allows either stand-alone Scheme programs or programs written in both compiled and interpreted Scheme and other languages. It supports "expansion passing style" macros, foreign function calls, records, and interfaces to Xlib (Ezd and Scix). Scheme-to-C runs on VAX, ULTRIX, DECstation, Alpha AXP OSF/1, Windows 3.1, Apple Macintosh 7.1, HP 9000/300, HP 9000/700, Sony News, SGI Iris and Harris Nighthawk, and other Unix-like 88000 systems. The earlier 01nov91 version runs on Amiga, SunOS, NeXT, and Apollo systems.
  • schistosome — Also called bilharzia. any elongated trematode of the genus Schistosoma, parasitic in the blood vessels of humans and other mammals; a blood fluke.
  • school meal — lunch served at educational institution
  • school milk — (formerly, in Britain) a third of a pint of milk, originally provided free by the local education authority to all young pupils, then later given only to children who passed a needs or means test
  • school time — the period of the day or year when children are at school
  • schoolma'am — schoolmarm.
  • schoolmarms — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
  • schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
  • scotch mist — a combination of mist or fog and drizzle, occurring frequently in Scotland and parts of England.
  • scotchwoman — Scotswoman.
  • scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
  • scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
  • second home — an additional residence, as at the shore or in the country, where one goes on weekends, vacations, and the like.
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • simethicone — an active ingredient in many antacid preparations that causes small mucus-entrapped air bubbles in the intestines to coalesce into larger bubbles that are more easily passed.
  • smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
  • so much for — So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject.
  • speech form — linguistic form.
  • stench bomb — a small bomb made to emit a foul smell on exploding.
  • stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
  • stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
  • stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
  • stomachache — pain in the stomach or abdomen; colic.
  • stomachless — lacking or not having a stomach
  • storm watch — watch (def 20).
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