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11-letter words containing h, o, m, p

  • camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
  • camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
  • camphorweed — vinegarweed.
  • camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
  • carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
  • cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
  • cephalotomy — the dissection of the head
  • chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
  • chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
  • chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
  • champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
  • champignons — Plural form of champignon.
  • championess — a female champion
  • championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
  • champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
  • cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
  • chemosphere — an atmospheric zone about 19 to 80 km (11.8 to 49.7 mi) above the earth's surface, in which photochemical reactions take place
  • chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
  • chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
  • chromascope — An instrument for showing the optical effects of colour.
  • chrome tape — magnetic recording tape coated with chrome dioxide
  • chromeplate — to plate with chromium.
  • chromograph — (obsolete) chromolithograph.
  • chromophile — Also, chromophilic, chromophilous [kroh-mof-uh-luh s] /kroʊˈmɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA), chromatophilic, chromatophilous. staining readily.
  • chromophobe — a cell that does not take a stain easily
  • chromophore — a group of atoms in a chemical compound that are responsible for the colour of the compound
  • chromoplasm — chromatin.
  • chromoplast — a coloured plastid in a plant cell, esp one containing carotenoids
  • chromoscope — a piece of equipment that is used to examine different aspects of colour including, for example, intensity
  • chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
  • complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
  • comprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprehend.
  • comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
  • coppersmith — a person who works copper or copper alloys
  • cosmography — a representation of the world or the universe
  • cosmosphere — a device consisting of a glass globe on which the stars are shown, and within which is another globe representing the Earth, that shows the position of the Earth, at any given time, in relation to the stars
  • cpt theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
  • cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
  • demob-happy — feeling elated in anticipation of demobilization from the armed forces
  • demographer — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
  • demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
  • dermography — a type of marking on the skin, whether in the form of writing or pictures, supposedly of psychic origin, similar to stigmata except for being more short-lived
  • diamorphine — heroin.
  • dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads
  • drop hammer — drop forge.
  • dry shampoo — a product in powder or spray form that you can use to clean hair without wetting it
  • dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
  • easthampton — a city in W Massachusetts.
  • ectomorphic — having a thin body build, roughly characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic ectoderm (contrasted with endomorphic, mesomorphic).
  • edrophonium — a substance, C 10 H 16 BrNO, used to reverse certain muscle-relaxing agents, such as tubocurarine, in surgical procedures: also used in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
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