11-letter words containing e, s, c, o, n
- french rose — Provence rose.
- frondescent — Leafy; becoming leafy; resembling leaves.
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- geocentrism — A belief that Earth is the center of the universe and does not move.
- geodynamics — (used with a singular verb) the science dealing with dynamic processes or forces within the earth.
- geosciences — Plural form of geoscience.
- geosyncline — a portion of the earth's crust subjected to downward warping during a large span of geologic time; a geosynclinal fold.
- geotechnics — the application of science in order to utilize the earth's natural resources in engineering projects
- gerodontics — the branch of dentistry dealing with aging and aged persons.
- ghost dance — a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- gynaecomast — a man who suffers from gynaecomastia
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- hemisection — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- 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
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- home screen — television.
- homecomings — Plural form of homecoming.
- honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular 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.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- hyoscyamine — a poisonous alkaloid, C 17 H 23 NO 3 , obtained from henbane and other solanaceous plants, used as a sedative, analgesic, mydriatic, and antispasmodic.
- hypocenters — Plural form of hypocenter.
- hypocretins — Plural form of hypocretin.
- ice station — a camp or base in an isolated part of the Arctic or Antarctic, manned by specialists to monitor the weather, geological formations, wildlife, etc.
- iconophiles — a connoisseur of icons or images.
- iconoscopes — Plural form of iconoscope.
- iconostases — Plural form of iconostasis.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- importances — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- imprecision — not precise; not exact; vague or ill-defined.
- in close-up — If you see something in close-up, you see it in great detail in a photograph or piece of film which has been taken very near to the subject.
- in lockstep — When members of the armed forces march in lockstep, they march very close to each other.
- in prospect — expected, predicted
- incensation — (Roman Catholic Church) The offering of incense.
- incompassed — Simple past tense and past participle of incompass.
- incompletes — Plural form of incomplete.
- incomposite — not composite or consisting of parts; simple; not divisible into parts
- inconscient — unconscious.