11-letter words containing e, n, h, a

on the beat — A police officer on the beat is on duty, walking around the area for which he or she is responsible.
on the bias — A dress or skirt that is cut on the bias or that is bias-cut has been cut diagonally across the material so that it hangs down in a particular way.
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 coat — in disfavour
on the flat — On the flat means on level ground.
on the game — If a man or woman is on the game, he or she is working as a prostitute.
on the make — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
on the nail — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
on the road — a novel (1957) by Jack Kerouac.
on the take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
on the wane — If something is on the wane, it is becoming weaker or less.
one another — each other
onslaughter — An onslaught.
open-handed — generous; liberal: openhanded hospitality.
open-hearth — noting, pertaining to, or produced by the open-hearth process.
openhearted — Frank and candid.
orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
orthopteran — orthopterous.
other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
other woman — a woman who is romantically or sexually involved with another woman's husband or lover, especially a woman who is having an affair with a married man.
outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
over-handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
overarching — forming an arch above: great trees with overarching branches.
overhanging — extending or dangling
overheating — heating (something) excessively
paint horse — paint (def 6).
pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
pan-atheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
panathenaea — a festival in honor of the goddess Athena, celebrated yearly in ancient Athens, with each fourth year reserved for greater pomp, marked by contests, as in athletics and music, and highlighted by a solemn procession to the Acropolis bearing a peplos embroidered for the goddess.
panathenaia — a festival in honor of the goddess Athena, celebrated yearly in ancient Athens, with each fourth year reserved for greater pomp, marked by contests, as in athletics and music, and highlighted by a solemn procession to the Acropolis bearing a peplos embroidered for the goddess.
panathenaic — of or relating to a Panathenaea, a festival in honor of the goddess Athena.
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.
panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
panentheism — the belief that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it
panentheist — someone who believes that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it
panesthesia — total awareness and perception
panhellenic — of or relating to all Greeks or to Panhellenism.
panomphaean — understood universally
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.
pantheology — a branch of theology embracing all gods and all religions
pantheonize — to place, especially to bury, in a pantheon: The author will be pantheonized following the funeral mass.
pantothenic — denoting an acid which is a growth-promoting vitamin of vitamin B complex
paper chain — a decorative chain of loops of coloured paper
paperhanger — a person whose job is covering walls with wallpaper.
paranephric — located near the kidney
paranephros — the adrenal gland
paraphernal — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
paraphrenia — a type of severe paranoid schizophrenia

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