11-letter words containing h, o, r, s
- microphones — Plural form of microphone.
- microphylls — Plural form of microphyll.
- microphytes — Plural form of microphyte.
- microsphere — a very small medical particle, containing a diagnostic or therapeutic agent, that is injected into the blood
- microswitch — a highly sensitive switch used in automatic-control devices.
- mimeographs — Plural form of mimeograph.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- misanthropy — hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.
- misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
- monarchists — Plural form of monarchist.
- monitorship — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
- monochromes — Plural form of monochrome.
- monohybrids — Plural form of monohybrid.
- monorhinous — having a single, median nostril, as the cyclostomes.
- monostrophe — a poem in which all the strophes or stanzas are of the same metrical form.
- moonshiners — Plural form of moonshiner.
- mother ship — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- motherhouse — The monastery from which the other 'houses' of a religious order or congregation were (directly or indirectly) founded, often eponymous.
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- motherships — Plural form of mothership.
- motherworts — Plural form of motherwort.
- motormouths — Plural form of motormouth.
- mu shu pork — moo shu pork
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- mushrooming — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- musk orchid — a small Eurasian orchid, Herminium monorchis, with dense spikes of musk-scented greenish-yellow flowers
- mycorrhizas — Plural form of mycorrhiza.
- myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
- nanospheres — Plural form of nanosphere.
- nasopharynx — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
- naturopaths — Plural form of naturopath.
- nearshoring — the practice of moving one's employees or business activities from a distant country back to a country that is nearby: The U.S.-based company is focusing on the nearshoring of its customer-service operations from India to Canada. Compare offshoring.
- nephrolepis — any fern of the tropical genus Nephrolepis, some species of which are grown as ornamental greenhouse or house plants for their handsome deeply-cut drooping fronds: family Polypodiaceae
- nephroliths — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- nephroscope — (surgery) An instrument used to examine the kidney through an inserted tube.
- nephrostome — Zoology. the ciliated opening of a nephridium into the coelom.
- netherstock — a stocking
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- neutrophils — Plural form of neutrophil.
- neutrosophy — (philosophy) (From Latin "neuter" - neutral, Greek "sophia" - skill/wisdom) A branch of philosophy, introduced by Florentin Smarandache in 1980, which studies the origin, nature, and scope of neutralities, as well as their interactions with different ideational spectra. Neutrosophy considers a proposition, theory, event, concept, or entity, "A" in relation to its opposite, "Anti-A" and that which is not A, "Non-A", and that which is neither "A" nor "Anti-A", denoted by "Neut-A". Neutrosophy is the basis of neutrosophic logic, neutrosophic probability, neutrosophic set, and neutrosophic statistics.
- nitrostarch — an orange powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 8 O 2 6 , soluble in ethanol, used in explosives.
- noirishness — Quality of being noirish.
- north adams — a city in NW Massachusetts.
- north slope — the northern coastal area of Alaska, rich in oil and natural gas: so called because it is N of the Brooks Range sloping down to the Arctic Ocean.
- northeaster — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northeast.
- northerlies — Plural form of northerly.
- northermost — Synonym of northernmost.
- northerners — Plural form of northerner.
- northernism — a mannerism or phrase considered typical of northerners
- northwester — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northwest.