11-letter words containing h, o, u, n
- clean house — to clean and put a home in order
- coauthoring — Present participle of coauthor.
- coconut shy — a fairground stall in which balls are thrown to knock coconuts off stands
- column inch — a unit of measurement for advertising space, one inch deep and one column wide
- conchylious — Archaic form of conchylaceous.
- convex hull — the smallest convex set containing a given set; the intersection of all convex sets that contain a given set.
- cool hunter — a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media
- cornhuskers — Plural form of cornhusker.
- cornhusking — the removal of the husk from corn
- 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.
- cushion cut — a variety of brilliant cut in which the girdle has the form of a square with rounded corners.
- cushionless — without a cushion
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
- dinner hour — lunch hour
- dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- disenshroud — to free from a shroud
- dishonoured — Simple past tense and past participle of dishonour.
- dishonourer — One who dishonours.
- dongting hu — lake in Hunan province, SE China: c. 1,450 sq mi (3,755 sq km); during floods, over 4,000 sq mi (10,360 sq km)
- donkeypunch — Alternative form of donkey punch.
- donut peach — fruit
- double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- double-hung — (of a window) having two vertically sliding sashes, each closing a different part of the opening.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- douchecanoe — (vulgar, slang, pejorative) A rude, obnoxious, or contemptible person.
- doughtiness — steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.
- downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- edrophonium — a substance, C 10 H 16 BrNO, used to reverse certain muscle-relaxing agents, such as tubocurarine, in surgical procedures: also used in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
- endochylous — having water-storing cells
- endophagous — relating to endophagy
- endothecium — (biology) The tissue found in the walls of anthers, and in moss capsules.
- endothelium — The tissue that forms a single layer of cells lining various organs and cavities of the body, especially the blood vessels, heart, and lymphatic vessels. It is formed from the embryonic mesoderm.
- enough said — understood
- enshrouding — Present participle of enshroud.
- epignathous — having a protruding upper jaw
- erythronium — A plant of a genus that includes dogtooth violet.
- escutcheons — Plural form of escutcheon.
- euchologion — a collection of prayers
- euchromatin — the part of a chromosome that constitutes the major genes and does not stain strongly with basic dyes when the cell is not dividing
- even though — although, despite the fact that