11-letter words containing h, s, a, m
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- mushyheaded — inadequately thought out: mushyheaded ideas.
- mustachioed — a mustache.
- muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
- mycophagist — a fungus-eating organism.
- mycophagous — feeding on fungi.
- mycorrhizas — Plural form of mycorrhiza.
- myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
- myxasthenia — defective secretion of mucus.
- nightdreams — Plural form of nightdream.
- nightmarish — resembling a nightmare, especially in being terrifying, exasperating, or the like: his nightmarish experience in a concentration camp.
- nishinomiya — a city on S Honshu, in S Japan.
- nizhnekamsk — a city in the E Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Kazan.
- no mean sth — You can use no mean in expressions such as 'no mean writer' and 'no mean golfer' to indicate that someone does something well.
- north adams — a city in NW Massachusetts.
- oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.
- offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
- old-maidish — characteristic of or resembling an old maid.
- ophthalmist — an eye expert; an oculist
- opisthosoma — the abdomen of a spider or other arachnid
- pan-atheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- panentheism — the belief that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it
- panpsychism — a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
- parashurama — a Rama and avatar of Vishnu who rid the earth of Kshatriyas.
- parish pump — of only local interest; parochial
- petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
- 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).
- phantasmata — phantasm (defs 1, 2).
- phariseeism — the principles and practices of the Pharisees.
- phonematics — phonemics.
- photomosaic — mosaic (def 4).
- phrasemaker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
- phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
- physicalism — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- pillow sham — an ornamental cover laid over a bed pillow.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- potash alum — alum1 (def 1).
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- preemphasis — a process of increasing the amplitude of certain frequencies relative to others in a signal in order to help them override noise, complemented by deemphasis before final reproduction of the signal being received.
- prefreshman — before being a freshman
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- psammophile — a plant or animal that thrives in sand
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.
- ramakrishna — Sri [sree,, shree] /sri,, ʃri/ (Show IPA), 1836–86, Hindu religious reformer and mystic.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- ramos-horta — José, born 1949, East Timorese resistance leader, political activist (1975–99) during Indonesian occupation, and foreign minister from independence in 2000 to 2006; president since 2007: Nobel prize 1996.