11-letter words containing h, o, u, n
- on the outs — on unfriendly terms
- on the turn — at the point of change
- onslaughter — An onslaught.
- open cheque — an uncrossed cheque that can be cashed at the drawee bank
- ornithosaur — an extinct flying reptile
- orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
- otter hound — one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.
- out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- outfighting — a battle or combat.
- outmatching — Present participle of outmatch.
- outpouching — (pathology) evagination.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- outweighing — Present participle of outweigh.
- overburthen — to overburden
- overhunting — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- overnourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- oxyrhynchus — a fish found in the Nile, sometimes depicted on Egyptian sculptures and coins
- panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- phosphonium — the positively charged group PH 4 + .
- photo-mount — a heavy paper or board suitable for mounting photographs.
- plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
- plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- polyphonous — Music. polyphonic composition; counterpoint.
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- pseudophone — an instrument for producing illusory auditory localization by changing the relationship between the receptor and the actual direction of the sound.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- punch spoon — a spoon having a pierced bowl and a barbed end for removing fruit, ice, etc., from punch.
- punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
- put on hold — suspend
- pythonesque — denoting a kind of humour that is absurd and unpredictable; zany; surreal
- qinhuangdao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
- quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quinhydrone — a dark green, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 1 2 H 1 0 O 4 , used in solution, together with a platinum wire, as an electrode (quinhy·drone elec·trode)
- quonset hut — A Quonset hut is a military hut made of metal. The walls and roof form the shape of a semi-circle.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- rinthereout — a vagrant or homeless person
- roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
- rough lemon — a variety of lemon that has orange-yellow, rough-skinned fruit and is used as a rootstock for the cultivation of other citrus fruits.
- roughing-in — the act or process of applying a base coat of plaster to a masonry surface.