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

  • reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • redhibition — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
  • rehydration — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
  • rehypnotize — to hypnotize again
  • renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
  • retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
  • rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
  • rhinestoned — adorned with rhinestones
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • rhinorrhoea — an excessive discharge of mucus from the nose.
  • rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
  • rhizoctonia — any of various soil-inhabiting fungi of the genus Rhizoctonia, some species of which are destructive to cultivated plants, causing damping off of seedlings, foliage blight, root and stem cankers, and rot of storage organs.
  • rhone river — a river flowing from the Alps in S Switzerland through the Lake of Geneva and SE France into the Mediterranean. 504 miles (810 km) long.
  • right money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
  • rinthereout — a vagrant or homeless person
  • roadholding — A vehicle's roadholding is how easy it is to control safely in difficult driving conditions or when going round bends.
  • rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
  • roughing-in — the act or process of applying a base coat of plaster to a masonry surface.
  • sash ribbon — a strip of steel or aluminum alloy for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
  • scorchingly — in a scorching manner
  • scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
  • shirt front — the front of a shirt, especially the part that is exposed when a jacket or vest is worn.
  • shoe-string — a shoelace.
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • showeriness — the state or quality of being showery
  • 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
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • sir anthony — Sir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
  • southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
  • southernize — to make or become southern
  • sponsorship — a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing.
  • springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
  • surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
  • surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
  • synchoresis — the act or an instance of conceding an argument in order to make a stronger one
  • 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).
  • synchronise — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synchronize — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
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