11-letter words containing h, o, m, r, a
- nonharmonic — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- nonhormonal — not involving hormones, not hormonal
- norman arch — a semicircular arch, esp one in the Romanesque style of architecture developed by the Normans in England
- north adams — a city in NW Massachusetts.
- north miami — a city in SE Florida.
- northampton — a city in Northamptonshire, in central England.
- northumbria — an early English kingdom extending N from the Humber to the Firth of Forth.
- oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.
- offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
- ommatophore — a tentacle or movable stalk bearing an eye, as in certain snails.
- ophidiarium — an enclosure for snakes, adapted to their normal living conditions
- orthonormal — (of a system of functions) normal; normalized.
- other woman — a woman who is romantically or sexually involved with another woman's husband or lover, especially a woman who is having an affair with a married man.
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- pole hammer — a shafted weapon having a spiked hammer head.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- ramos-horta — José, born 1949, East Timorese resistance leader, political activist (1975–99) during Indonesian occupation, and foreign minister from independence in 2000 to 2006; president since 2007: Nobel prize 1996.
- remand home — a detention home for juvenile offenders aged 8–16 years.
- rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
- rhabdomyoma — a benign tumor made up of striated muscular tissue.
- rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
- rhyme royal — a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh.
- rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
- roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
- roman shade — a window shade that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds.
- room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
- route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
- schoolmarms — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- serrano ham — cured ham from Spain
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- small hours — pre-dawn
- smallholder — owner of small plot of land
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.