11-letter words containing h, o, s, a, n, r
- horse-drawn — A horse-drawn carriage, cart, or other vehicle is one that is pulled by one or more horses.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- house organ — a periodical issued by a business or other establishment for its employees, customers, and other interested readers, presenting news about the firm, its products, and its personnel.
- house-train — to housebreak.
- houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
- houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
- hydrogenase — an enzyme in certain microorganisms that speeds up the reversible oxidation of hydrogen
- hydroplanes — Plural form of hydroplane.
- hypersomnia — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- intraschool — Within a single school.
- janitorship — the office of janitor
- job sharing — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- kongur shan — a mountain in China, in W Xinjiang: the highest peak in the Pamirs. Height: 7719 m (25 325 ft)
- landholders — Plural form of landholder.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- machinators — Plural form of machinator.
- manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
- marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
- mashie iron — a club with an iron head, the face having more slope than a mid-mashie but less slope than a mashie.
- metanephros — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of higher vertebrates, becoming the permanent and functional kidney.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- misanthropy — hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.
- monarchists — Plural form of monarchist.
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- 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.
- nitrostarch — an orange powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 8 O 2 6 , soluble in ethanol, used in explosives.
- north adams — a city in NW Massachusetts.
- northeaster — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northeast.
- noun phrase — a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
- nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
- oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.
- octahedrons — Plural form of octahedron.
- offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
- oil varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- onslaughter — An onslaught.
- orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
- ornithosaur — an extinct flying reptile
- other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- paranephros — the adrenal gland
- parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
- patron-ship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patroonship — a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and 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).