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11-letter words containing c, h, r, o, n, s

  • cornhusking — the removal of the husk from corn
  • cornish rex — a breed of cat with a very soft wavy coat, a small head, large eyes, and very large ears
  • countershot — a sequence of frames seen from the perspective of the subject of the previous shot
  • cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
  • crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
  • cross-bench — a seat in Parliament occupied by a neutral or independent member
  • ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
  • dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
  • decahedrons — Plural form of decahedron.
  • diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
  • discophoran — a member of the Discophora group
  • disharmonic — lacking harmony; disharmonious; discordant.
  • dysharmonic — relating to abnormal bone development
  • echinoderms — Plural form of echinoderm.
  • encroachers — Plural form of encroacher.
  • fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
  • french rose — Provence rose.
  • gonochorism — (biology) The situation in which the individuals of a species are of one of two distinct sexes, and retain that sexuality throughout their lives.
  • grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
  • halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
  • hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
  • handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
  • harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
  • harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
  • henchperson — a loyal supporter, follower, or subordinate
  • heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
  • histrionics — an actor.
  • home screen — television.
  • honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
  • horn clause — (logic)   A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
  • horse conch — a marine gastropod, Pleuroploca gigantea, having a yellowish, spired shell that grows to a length of 2 feet (0.6 meters).
  • horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
  • hydroponics — the cultivation of plants by placing the roots in liquid nutrient solutions rather than in soil; soilless growth of plants. Compare aeroculture, geoponics (def 2).
  • hypocenters — Plural form of hypocenter.
  • hypocretins — Plural form of hypocretin.
  • hypocrinism — an abnormal condition caused by insufficient secretion from a gland, especially an endocrine gland.
  • ichthyornis — an extinct genus of toothed birds having vertebrae resembling those of fishes.
  • icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
  • interschool — Occurring or taking place between two or more schools.
  • intraschool — Within a single school.
  • ionospheric — Of or pertaining to the ionosphere.
  • isochronism — an isochronal character or action.
  • isochronize — to make isochronal.
  • isochronous — isochronal.
  • machinators — Plural form of machinator.
  • marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
  • mesonephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.
  • microinches — Plural form of microinch.
  • microphones — Plural form of microphone.
  • monarchists — Plural form of monarchist.
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