11-letter words containing h, o, u, n

lunar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
lunch-hooks — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
lymphonodus — (anatomy) lymph node.
manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
mole-hunter — a person who hunts for moles
monchiquite — a type of rock made up of large crystals of, among other constituents, olivine and amphibole and which is found in an analcite groundmass
monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
monorhinous — having a single, median nostril, as the cyclostomes.
mount athos — a mountainous peninsula in NE Greece: location of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos, an autonomous administrative division of Greece since 1927; inhabited by Eastern Orthodox monks in about 20 monasteries, some founded in the 10th century; prohibited to women and children. Pop: 1942 (2001)
mouth organ — harmonica (def 1).
multiphoton — involving several photons
mushrooming — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
mutton chop — cutlet of sheep's meat
muttonchops — The whiskers on a man's cheek when shaped like a meat chop, narrow at the top and broad and rounded at the bottom.
muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
naturopaths — Plural form of naturopath.
naturopathy — a system or method of treating disease that employs no surgery or synthetic drugs but uses special diets, herbs, vitamins, massage, etc., to assist the natural healing processes.
neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
neurohumour — a chemical substance secreted by nerve endings; a neurohormone, particularly a neurotransmitter
neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
neurotrophy — the influence of the nerves on the nutrition and maintenance of body tissue.
neutrophile — (biology) Any organism that thrives in a relatively neutral pH.
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.
new thought — a system of doctrine and practice originating in the 19th century and stressing the power of thought to control physical and mental events.
night court — a criminal court that convenes at night for the quick disposition of charges and the granting of bail.
nonhumanoid — Not humanoid.
north-bound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
northumbria — an early English kingdom extending N from the Humber to the Firth of Forth.
not much of — not to any appreciable degree or extent
not so much — less
nothing but — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
nototherium — an extinct Pleistocene rhinoceros-sized marsupial of the genus Nototherium, related to the wombats
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
nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
nucleophile — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
null method — a method of measurement using an electrical device, as a Wheatstone bridge, in which the quantity to be measured is balanced by an opposing known quantity that is varied until the resultant of the two is zero.
nun's cloth — a thin soft plain-weave silk or worsted fabric used for veils, dresses, etc
nyctanthous — (of plants) flowering at night
on schedule — with no delay
on the club — away from work due to sickness, esp when receiving sickness benefit
on the cuff — a fold or band serving as a trimming or finish for the bottom of a sleeve.
on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
on the hour — If something happens on the hour, it happens every hour at, for example, nine o'clock, ten o'clock, and so on, and not at any number of minutes past an hour.
on the jump — in a hurry

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