11-letter words containing c, s, h, e
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- misteaching — Present participle of misteach.
- moesogothic — of or relating to the Moesogoths or their language.
- monochromes — Plural form of monochrome.
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- multischeme — An implementation of Multilisp built on MIT's C-Scheme, for the BBN Butterfly.
- munchhausen — Karl Friedrich Hieronymus [kahrl free-drikh hee-ey-roh-ny-moo s] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx ˌhi eɪˈroʊ nüˌmʊs/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1720–97, German soldier, adventurer, and teller of tales.
- mustachioed — a mustache.
- nacogdoches — a city in N Texas.
- nephoscopes — Plural form of nephoscope.
- nephroscope — (surgery) An instrument used to examine the kidney through an inserted tube.
- netherstock — a stocking
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- nietzschean — the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- noncohesive — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- nontheistic — the belief in one God as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation (distinguished from deism).
- octahedrons — Plural form of octahedron.
- officership — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- oligarchies — Plural form of oligarchy.
- on schedule — with no delay
- on the case — If you say that someone is on the case, you mean that they are aware of a particular problem and are trying to resolve it.
- on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- ophicleides — Plural form of ophicleide.
- orchestrate — Arrange or score (music) for orchestral performance.
- orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
- orchestrion — a mechanical musical instrument, resembling a barrel organ but more elaborate, for producing the effect of an orchestra.
- orthoclases — Plural form of orthoclase.
- orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
- orthopedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- osteopathic — Of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.
- osteophytic — a small osseous excrescence or outgrowth on bone.
- ostrich egg — the large egg produced by a fast-running flightless African bird, Struthio camelus, that is the largest living bird, with stout two-toed feet and dark feathers, except on the naked head, neck, and legs: order Struthioniformes
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- overcharges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcharge.
- overclothes — clothing worn outside other garments.
- overstretch — to stretch excessively.
- oxbow chest — a chest of drawers having a front convex at the sides and concave in the center without vertical divisions.
- pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- pantheistic — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- paper chase — the effort to earn a diploma or college degree, especially in law, or a professional certificate or license.
- parchedness — the state or characteristic of being parched
- paresthetic — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
- pas de chat — a jump of one foot over the other.
- pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
- pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
- patch space — An unused block of bits left in a binary so that it can later be modified by insertion of machine-language instructions there (typically, the patch space is modified to contain new code, and the superseded code is patched to contain a jump or call to the patch space). The widening use of HLLs has made this term rare; it is now primarily historical outside IBM shops. See patch, zap, hook.
- peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach