11-letter words containing h, o, l, e
- nonathletic — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
- nonchalance — the state or quality of being nonchalant; cool indifference or lack of concern; casualness.
- nonchemical — Not chemical.
- nonetheless — however; nevertheless.
- nonwashable — Not washable.
- north slope — the northern coastal area of Alaska, rich in oil and natural gas: so called because it is N of the Brooks Range sloping down to the Arctic Ocean.
- northcliffe — Viscount, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.
- northerlies — Plural form of northerly.
- northlander — the land or region in the north.
- nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
- novelettish — Resembling or characteristic of a novelette.
- nucleophile — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- null method — a method of measurement using an electrical device, as a Wheatstone bridge, in which the quantity to be measured is balanced by an opposing known quantity that is varied until the resultant of the two is zero.
- nympholepsy — an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
- nympholepts — Plural form of nympholept.
- oak leather — a thick sheet of mycelium occurring in decayed oak wood.
- oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- oesophageal — esophageal.
- offhandedly — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- old english — Also called Anglo-Saxon. the English language of a.d. c450–c1150. Abbreviation: OE.
- old flemish — the Flemish language before c1300.
- old swedish — the language of Sweden as spoken and written from about 1225 to 1500.
- olethreutid — any of numerous brown or gray moths of the family Olethreutidae having mottled or banded wings and forewings, each with a truncated tip, including many crop pests, as the codling moth or oriental fruit moth.
- oligarchies — Plural form of oligarchy.
- oligochaete — any of various annelids of the family Oligochaeta, including earthworms and certain small, freshwater species, having locomotory setae sunk directly in the body wall.
- oligochrome — the brand name of a light filtering device used in photography
- olive shell — any marine gastropod of the family Olividae, having a polished, highly colored, elongated shell and a large mantle that, when extended, surrounds the shell.
- omnichannel — Using every channel.
- omphalocele — A hernia of the navel.
- on schedule — with no delay
- on the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
- on the club — away from work due to sickness, esp when receiving sickness benefit
- on the dole — Someone who is on the dole is registered as unemployed and receives money from the government.
- on the flat — On the flat means on level ground.
- on the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- 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.
- onslaughter — An onslaught.
- ophicalcite — a type of marble containing serpentine and calcite
- ophicleides — Plural form of ophicleide.
- oral herpes — a disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 1, characterized primarily by a cluster of small, transient blisters chiefly at the edge of the lip or nostril; herpes labialis.
- orthoclases — Plural form of orthoclase.
- orthohelium — (physics) Form of the helium atom in which the spins of the two electrons are parallel.
- 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.
- other world — the world after death; the future world.
- otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
- otherworlds — Plural form of otherworld.
- otherworldy — With a quality unlike those normal to everyday life, or outside typical human experience.
- over-handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- overclothes — clothing worn outside other garments.
- overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration