11-letter words containing i, s, c, h, o, r
- microphytes — Plural form of microphyte.
- microsphere — a very small medical particle, containing a diagnostic or therapeutic agent, that is injected into the blood
- microswitch — a highly sensitive switch used in automatic-control devices.
- monarchists — Plural form of monarchist.
- musk orchid — a small Eurasian orchid, Herminium monorchis, with dense spikes of musk-scented greenish-yellow flowers
- mycorrhizas — Plural form of mycorrhiza.
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- nitrostarch — an orange powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 8 O 2 6 , soluble in ethanol, used in explosives.
- officership — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- oligarchies — Plural form of oligarchy.
- orchardists — Plural form of orchardist.
- orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
- orchestrion — a mechanical musical instrument, resembling a barrel organ but more elaborate, for producing the effect of an orchestra.
- orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
- orthopedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- orthoscopic — pertaining to, characterized by, or produced by normal vision.
- orthostatic — relating to or caused by erect posture.
- orthostichy — a vertical rank or row.
- ostrich egg — the large egg produced by a fast-running flightless African bird, Struthio camelus, that is the largest living bird, with stout two-toed feet and dark feathers, except on the naked head, neck, and legs: order Struthioniformes
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- 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
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
- proctorship — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- radio shack — a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.
- rhapsodical — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- scholarship — learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
- school trip — educational outing
- schorlomite — a mineral that is black in colour and belongs to the garnet group
- 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.
- scorchingly — in a scorching manner
- scots-irish — Scotch-Irish
- scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- scripophily — the collecting by hobbyists of old stock certificates and bonds that have no intrinsic value other than their aesthetic appeal or relative rarity.
- sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
- shock radio — broadcasting by a commercial radio station whose humor includes tasteless jokes, sexual innuendo, and ethnic insults.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.