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11-letter words containing h, o, m, i, n

  • phyllomania — the production of leaves in abnormal numbers or places.
  • physiognomy — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
  • prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
  • psychonomic — of or relating to psychonomics
  • right money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
  • rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
  • scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
  • semimonthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
  • shimonoseki — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: treaty ending Sino-Japanese War signed 1895.
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • showjumping — horseriding event
  • showmanship — the skill or ability of a showman.
  • showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
  • simethicone — an active ingredient in many antacid preparations that causes small mucus-entrapped air bubbles in the intestines to coalesce into larger bubbles that are more easily passed.
  • siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
  • smithsonite — a native carbonate of zinc, ZnCO 3 , that is an important ore of the metal.
  • southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
  • sphinx moth — hawk moth.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • symphonious — harmonious; in harmonious agreement or accord.
  • synchromism — a movement of the early 20th century led by American artists and manifested in their experimentation with nonfigurative or entirely abstract paintings containing shapes and volumes of pure color. Compare Orphism (def 2).
  • synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • taphonomist — a specialist in taphonomy
  • technomania — an obsessional enthusiasm for technology
  • the miocene — this epoch or rock series
  • the moer in — furious; enraged
  • the moonies — the Unification Church
  • thedominion — New Zealand
  • theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
  • thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
  • thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
  • thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
  • thingamabob — thingamajig.
  • thingumabob — thingamajig.
  • thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
  • titanomachy — the unsuccessful revolt of the family of the Titan Iapetus against Zeus
  • trichomonad — any flagellate protozoan of the genus Trichomonas, parasitic in humans or animals.
  • trichonymph — a flagellated protozoan of the genus Trichonympha that lives in the intestine of wood-eating termites, transforming the cellulose in the wood into soluble carbohydrates that can be utilized by the insect.
  • turnip moth — a common noctuid moth, Agrotis segetum, drab grey-brown in colour, the larvae of which feed on root crops and brassica stems
  • unlightsome — without light; dark
  • whit monday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
  • winter moth — a brown geometrid moth, Operophtera brumata, of which the male is often seen against lighted windows in winter, the female being wingless
  • workmanship — the art or skill of a workman or workwoman.
  • xenodochium — a guesthouse for receiving strangers
  • xenomorphic — in an unusual form; having a strange form.
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