11-letter words containing i, n, s, g, h
- 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.
- nearsighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- net fishing — Fishing using a net, esp a large commercial drift net
- netherlings — underwear
- new english — Modern English.
- niggerheads — Plural form of niggerhead.
- night nurse — a nurse whose duty is to look after a patient or patients during the night
- night shift — the work force, as of a factory, scheduled to work during the nighttime.
- night snake — a nocturnal, mildly venomous New World snake, Hypsiglena torquata, having a gray or yellowish body marked with dark brown spots.
- night stand — small bedside table
- night stick — a special club carried by a policeman; billy.
- nightdreams — Plural form of nightdream.
- nightlights — Plural form of nightlight.
- nightmarish — resembling a nightmare, especially in being terrifying, exasperating, or the like: his nightmarish experience in a concentration camp.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- nightshades — Plural form of nightshade.
- nightshirts — Plural form of nightshirt.
- nightstands — Plural form of nightstand.
- nightsticks — Plural form of nightstick.
- nothingness — the state of being nothing.
- old english — Also called Anglo-Saxon. the English language of a.d. c450–c1150. Abbreviation: OE.
- openinsight — (programming, database) The workflow-enabled Windows 95/Windows NT version of Advanced Revelation, featuring native support for Lotus Notes, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and ODBC. OpenInsight is available from Revelation Software.
- orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
- overfishing — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- pershing ii — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- pharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membrane of the pharynx; sore throat.
- phonologist — a specialist in phonology.
- physiognomy — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- pintsch gas — gas with high illuminating power made from shale oil or petroleum, used in buoys, lighthouses, and railroad cars.
- plenishings — furnishings or equipment
- potshotting — the act of taking potshots
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- psychogenic — having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process: a psychogenic disorder.
- publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- ravishingly — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- re-shipping — to ship again.
- redshirting — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
- rel english — Rapidly Extensible Language, English
- ridesharing — of or relating to the sharing of rides or transportation, especially among commuters: The agency was set up to devise a ridesharing program.
- rightsizing — to adjust to an appropriate size: Layoffs will be necessary to rightsize our workforce.
- sandringham — a village in N Norfolk, England: site of Sandringham House, Royal Family mansion.
- sandwiching — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
- schizogenic — reproducing or formed by fission.
- schizogonic — relating to schizogony
- schlesinger — Arthur Meier [mahy-er] /ˈmaɪ ər/ (Show IPA), 1888–1965, U.S. historian.
- schoolgoing — the act of going to school
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- schuschnigg — Kurt von [kurt von;; German koort fuh n] /kɜrt vɒn;; German kurt fən/ (Show IPA) (1897–1977), Austrian statesman in the U.S.: Chancellor of Austria 1934–38.