11-letter words containing c, o, r, n, h
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- radiophonic — a radiotelephone.
- rail anchor — a fastening device for attaching the base of a rail to a crosstie.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
- rhizoctonia — any of various soil-inhabiting fungi of the genus Rhizoctonia, some species of which are destructive to cultivated plants, causing damping off of seedlings, foliage blight, root and stem cankers, and rot of storage organs.
- rhynchocoel — a cavity found in certain invertebrate worms which contains the sucking organ
- rhynchodont — having a toothed beak
- rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
- roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
- roundarched — having semicircular arches
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- scharnhorst — Gerhard Johann David von [gair-hahrt yoh-hahn dah-veet fuh n] /ˈgɛər hɑrt ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈdɑ vit fən/ (Show IPA), 1755–1813, Prussian general.
- schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- scorchingly — in a scorching manner
- screen shot — Also called screen capture. a copy or image of what is seen on a computer screen at a given time: Save the screenshot as a graphics file.
- screenshort — a screenshot that is shared on a social media website.
- scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
- shortchange — to give less than the correct change to.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
- stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
- stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- synchoresis — the act or an instance of conceding an argument in order to make a stronger one
- synchromesh — noting or pertaining to a synchronized shifting mechanism.
- synchromism — a movement of the early 20th century led by American artists and manifested in their experimentation with nonfigurative or entirely abstract paintings containing shapes and volumes of pure color. Compare Orphism (def 2).
- synchronise — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- synchronize — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
- synchronous — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- synchrotron — a type of cyclotron consisting of magnetic sections alternately spaced with sections in which particles are electrostatically accelerated.
- tautochrone — a curve upon which a moving object will reach a certain point at the same time through gravity from whichever point it starts
- tchervonetz — chervonets.
- technicolor — (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.
- technocracy — a theory and movement, prominent about 1932, advocating control of industrial resources, reform of financial institutions, and reorganization of the social system, based on the findings of technologists and engineers.
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- the cornish — the natives or inhabitants of Cornwall