11-letter words containing e, n, h, a
- michiganite — a native or inhabitant of Michigan.
- minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
- minute hand — the hand that indicates the minutes on a clock or watch, usually longer than the hour hand.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- misbehaving — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- mishappened — Simple past tense and past participle of mishappen.
- misteaching — Present participle of misteach.
- monographed — Simple past tense and past participle of monograph.
- monohydrate — a hydrate that contains one molecule of water, as ammonium carbonate, (NH 4) 2 CO 3 ·H 2 O.
- monongahela — a river flowing from N West Virginia through SW Pennsylvania into the Ohio River. 128 miles (205 km) long.
- monotherapy — (medicine) A therapy which is administered by itself.
- montherlant — Henry de [ahn-ree duh] /ɑ̃ˈri də/ (Show IPA), 1896–1972, French author.
- moshe dayan — Moshe [maw-she;; English moh-shuh] /mɔˈʃɛ;; English ˈmoʊ ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1915–81, Israeli politician and military leader: defense minister 1967–74, foreign minister 1977–79.
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- 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.
- muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
- myxasthenia — defective secretion of mucus.
- nacogdoches — a city in N Texas.
- nailbrushes — Plural form of nailbrush.
- naked lunch — a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.
- nakhichevan — an autonomous republic, an exclave of Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia, Turkey, and Iran. 2124 sq. mi. (5500 sq. km). Capital: Nakhichevan.
- namechecked — Simple past tense and past participle of namecheck.
- nanomachine — nanobot.
- nanospheres — Plural form of nanosphere.
- naphazoline — 2-(1-naphthylmethyl)-2-imidazoline hydrochloride, a sympathomimetic agent used as a vasoconstrictor.
- naphthacene — an explosive solid compound, C 1 8 H 1 2 , derived from anthracene and coal tar: used for detonating high explosives, as TNT.
- naphthalene — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble hydrocarbon, C 1 0 H 8 , usually obtained from coal tar: used in making dyes, as a moth repellant, etc.
- naphthaline — Naphthalene.
- naphthalize — to mix or saturate with naphtha.
- nathan hale — (character) An asterisk ("*", see also splat, ASCII). Notionally, from "I regret that I have only one asterisk for my country!" ("life to give" -> "ass to risk" -> "asterisk"), a misquote of the famous remark uttered by Nathan Hale just before he was hanged. Hale was a (failed) spy for the rebels in the American War of Independence.
- native bush — indigenous forest
- naughtiness — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
- neanderthal — of or relating to Neanderthal man.
- neanthropic — of or relating to modern forms of humans as compared with extinct species of the genus Homo.
- nearshoring — the practice of moving one's employees or business activities from a distant country back to a country that is nearby: The U.S.-based company is focusing on the nearshoring of its customer-service operations from India to Canada. Compare offshoring.
- nearsighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- necrophagan — (zoology) Any of the tribe Necrophaga of beetles whose larvae feed on carrion.
- necrophagia — the eating of dead bodies; esp., the practice of feeding on carrion
- necrophilia — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- necrophobia — an abnormal fear of death; thanatophobia.
- negrophobia — strong fear or dislike of black people.
- nemathecium — a wartlike protuberance on the thallus of certain red algae, containing tetraspores, antheridia, or cystocarps.
- nematomorph — any member of the phylum Nematomorpha, having a threadlike body, comprising the horsehair worms.
- nematophore — (within the coenosarc of certain colonial hydrozoans) a small specialized tentacle-like polyp having nematocysts
- neo-hebraic — Hebrew as spoken and written since the Diaspora
- nephritical — Alternative form of nephritic.
- nephropathy — any disease of the kidney.
- netherlands — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
- nettle rash — urticaria resulting from contact with various plants causing local irritation.
- neural arch — a bony or cartilaginous arch resting on the chief part of each vertebra and forming a tunnel through which the nerve cord passes