11-letter words containing i, n, t, o, h
- potshotting — the act of taking potshots
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prohibition — the act of prohibiting.
- prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
- pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- redhibition — the nullification of a sale because of a defect in the article sold of such nature as to make it totally or virtually unusable or as to have prevented the purchase if known to the buyer.
- rehydration — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
- rehypnotize — to hypnotize again
- retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
- rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
- rhinestoned — adorned with rhinestones
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- rhizoctonia — any of various soil-inhabiting fungi of the genus Rhizoctonia, some species of which are destructive to cultivated plants, causing damping off of seedlings, foliage blight, root and stem cankers, and rot of storage organs.
- right money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- rinthereout — a vagrant or homeless person
- saxophonist — musician who plays saxophone
- scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
- scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
- semimonthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- shake on it — to shake hands in agreement, reconciliation, etc
- sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
- shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- shirt front — the front of a shirt, especially the part that is exposed when a jacket or vest is worn.
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shower unit — fitted shower
- simethicone — an active ingredient in many antacid preparations that causes small mucus-entrapped air bubbles in the intestines to coalesce into larger bubbles that are more easily passed.
- single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
- sir anthony — Sir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
- smithsonite — a native carbonate of zinc, ZnCO 3 , that is an important ore of the metal.
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
- sottishness — the state of being sottish
- sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- southernize — to make or become southern
- southington — a town in central Connecticut.
- sphinx moth — hawk moth.
- standoffish — somewhat aloof or reserved; cold and unfriendly.
- stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
- stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
- stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
- stephanotis — any vine belonging to the genus Stephanotis, of the milkweed family, having fragrant, waxy, white flowers and leathery leaves.
- stone china — hard earthenware containing china stone.
- switched on — turned-on (def 1).