11-letter words containing h, i, n, c
- night-watch — a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- nightsticks — Plural form of nightstick.
- nimzowitsch — Aaron Isayevich (ɪˈzaɪjɛvɪtʃ) 1886–1935, Latvian chess player and theorist; influential in enunciating the principles of the hypermodern school, of which he was the main instigator
- ninth chord — a chord formed by the superposition of four thirds.
- nitro-chalk — a chemical fertilizer containing calcium carbonate and ammonium nitrate
- nitrostarch — an orange powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 8 O 2 6 , soluble in ethanol, used in explosives.
- noctiphobia — Fear of night; nyctophobia.
- non-hedonic — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- nonachiever — a student who fares poorly in the classroom or has failing grades.
- nonathletic — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
- nonchanging — Unchanging.
- nonchemical — Not chemical.
- noncohesive — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- nonemphatic — lacking emphasis, not emphatic
- nonharmonic — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- nonmatching — not matching: a nonmatching set of furniture.
- nonphonemic — not phonemic
- nonphonetic — not phonetic
- nonphysical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- nonrhythmic — Not having rhythm; irregular.
- nonteaching — the act or profession of a person who teaches.
- nontheistic — the belief in one God as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation (distinguished from deism).
- northcliffe — Viscount, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.
- nucleophile — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- nyctophobia — an abnormal fear of night or darkness.
- omnichannel — Using every channel.
- on thin ice — the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- onycholysis — (medicine) The loosening or separation of a fingernail or toenail from its bed.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
- orchestrion — a mechanical musical instrument, resembling a barrel organ but more elaborate, for producing the effect of an orchestra.
- orthodontic — Of, or relating to the dental speciality of orthodontics.
- orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
- orthopnoeic — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- outmatching — Present participle of outmatch.
- outpouching — (pathology) evagination.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- overarching — forming an arch above: great trees with overarching branches.
- panathenaic — of or relating to a Panathenaea, a festival in honor of the goddess Athena.
- pancha sila — a standard recitation of Hinayanists, including repetitions of formulas and of vows to abstain from anger, lust, cowardice, malevolence, and to abstain from the desire for possessions and unwholesome pleasures.
- panhellenic — of or relating to all Greeks or to Panhellenism.
- panpsychism — a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
- panpsychist — someone who believes that all matter has an element of consciousness
- 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.
- pantothenic — denoting an acid which is a growth-promoting vitamin of vitamin B complex
- paper chain — a decorative chain of loops of coloured paper
- parachuting — descent using parachute
- paranephric — located near the kidney