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11-letter words containing h, o, n

  • coinheritor — a fellow inheritor
  • collenchyma — a strengthening and supporting tissue in plants, consisting of elongated living cells whose walls are thickened with cellulose and pectins
  • collenchyme — Botany. a gelatinous, thickened, and usually elongated cell that is part of a layer of modified tissue in some plants.
  • colocynthis — Obsolete form of colocynth.
  • colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
  • coltishness — The state or condition of being coltish.
  • column inch — a unit of measurement for advertising space, one inch deep and one column wide
  • complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
  • comprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprehend.
  • conchylious — Archaic form of conchylaceous.
  • consortship — The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership.
  • convex hull — the smallest convex set containing a given set; the intersection of all convex sets that contain a given set.
  • convictfish — painted greenling.
  • cooch dance — a sinuous, quasi-Oriental dance performed by a woman and characterized chiefly by suggestive gyrating and shaking of the body.
  • cool hunter — a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media
  • coon cheese — a sharp crumbly cheddar cheese that has dark outer surfaces, usually enclosed in black wax.
  • coprophagan — a dung beetle
  • corinthians — either of two books of the New Testament (in full The First and Second Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians)
  • corn starch — Corn starch is a fine white powder made from corn, used as a thickener or binder in the manufacture of drugs.
  • corn whisky — whisky made from maize
  • corner shop — A corner shop is a small shop, usually on the corner of a street, that sells mainly food and household goods.
  • cornhuskers — Plural form of cornhusker.
  • cornhusking — the removal of the husk from corn
  • cornish rex — a breed of cat with a very soft wavy coat, a small head, large eyes, and very large ears
  • coronagraph — an optical instrument used to simulate an eclipse of the sun so that the faint solar corona can be studied
  • coronograph — an instrument for observing and photographing the sun's corona, consisting of a telescope fitted with lenses, filters, and diaphragms that simulate an eclipse.
  • cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
  • cottonmouth — water moccasin
  • countermyth — a myth that conflicts with another myth
  • countershot — a sequence of frames seen from the perspective of the subject of the previous shot
  • county home — a county poorhouse.
  • cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
  • craniograph — an instrument that outlines the skull.
  • craniophore — a device that holds a skull in place for measuring.
  • crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
  • crochetings — a collection of crochet-work
  • cross-bench — a seat in Parliament occupied by a neutral or independent member
  • crown ether — a type of cyclic ether consisting of a ring of carbon and oxygen atoms, with two or more carbon atoms between each oxygen atom
  • crown vetch — a trailing leguminous European plant, Coronilla varia, with clusters of white or pink flowers: cultivated in North America as a border plant
  • crown wheel — the wheel next to the winding knob that has one set of teeth at right angles to the other
  • ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
  • ctenophores — Plural form of ctenophore.
  • cushion cut — a variety of brilliant cut in which the girdle has the form of a square with rounded corners.
  • cushionless — without a cushion
  • cyanohydrin — any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyanide group and a hydroxyl group bound to the same carbon atom
  • cyclohexane — a colourless insoluble flammable liquid cycloalkane with a pungent odour, made by hydrogenation of benzene and used as a paint remover and solvent. Formula: C6H12
  • cyclohexene — (organic compound) A cyclic hydrocarbon containing six carbon atoms and one double bond; any of its derivatives.
  • cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
  • cynophilist — a person with a love of dogs
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