11-letter words containing i, r, s, h, m, o
- musk orchid — a small Eurasian orchid, Herminium monorchis, with dense spikes of musk-scented greenish-yellow flowers
- mycorrhizas — Plural form of mycorrhiza.
- myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
- northernism — a mannerism or phrase considered typical of northerners
- nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.
- phosphorism — chronic phosphorus poisoning.
- physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
- rhizomatous — a rootlike subterranean stem, commonly horizontal in position, that usually produces roots below and sends up shoots progressively from the upper surface.
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
- rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- short-timer — a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
- somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- synchromism — a movement of the early 20th century led by American artists and manifested in their experimentation with nonfigurative or entirely abstract paintings containing shapes and volumes of pure color. Compare Orphism (def 2).
- synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
- thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
- thermolysis — Physiology. the dispersion of heat from the body.
- thermotaxis — Biology. movement of an organism toward or away from a source of heat.
- trimorphism — Zoology. the occurrence of three forms distinct in structure, coloration, etc., among animals of the same species.
- whisk broom — a small, short-handled broom used chiefly to brush clothes.
- whiskbrooms — Plural form of whiskbroom.
- workaholism — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.
- workmanship — the art or skill of a workman or workwoman.
- xerophytism — (botany) The adaptation of plants to habitats where water is scarce.
- zoomorphism — zoomorphic representation, as in ornament.