11-letter words containing m, h, o, r
- northampton — a city in Northamptonshire, in central England.
- northermost — Synonym of northernmost.
- northernism — a mannerism or phrase considered typical of northerners
- northumbria — an early English kingdom extending N from the Humber to the Firth of Forth.
- nototherium — an extinct Pleistocene rhinoceros-sized marsupial of the genus Nototherium, related to the wombats
- nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.
- offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
- oligochrome — the brand name of a light filtering device used in photography
- ommatophore — a tentacle or movable stalk bearing an eye, as in certain snails.
- ophidiarium — an enclosure for snakes, adapted to their normal living conditions
- oppenheimer — J(ulius) Robert, 1904–67, U.S. nuclear physicist.
- orchidotomy — incision of a testis.
- orchiectomy — excision of one or both testes; castration.
- orthodromic — relating to orthodromy
- orthohelium — (physics) Form of the helium atom in which the spins of the two electrons are parallel.
- orthometric — (crystallography) having axes at right angles.
- orthonormal — (of a system of functions) normal; normalized.
- other woman — a woman who is romantically or sexually involved with another woman's husband or lover, especially a woman who is having an affair with a married man.
- overwhelmed — to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
- oxymorphone — a potent semisynthetic morphine-derived narcotic analgesic, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 4 , used as a substitute for morphine.
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- pct theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- pedomorphic — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
- perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
- 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).
- phosphorism — chronic phosphorus poisoning.
- photochromy — a former technique of color photography.
- photometric — the measurement of the intensity of light or of relative illuminating power.
- phraseogram — a written symbol or combination of symbols, as in shorthand, used to represent a phrase.
- physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
- phytochrome — a plant pigment that is associated with the absorption of light in the photoperiodic response and that may regulate various types of growth and development.
- pitchometer — an instrument embodying a clinometer, for measuring the pitch of a ship's propeller
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- pleomorphic — of, relating to, or characterized by pleomorphism; polymorphous.
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- pole hammer — a shafted weapon having a spiked hammer head.
- polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
- polychromic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- polymorphic — polymorphism
- pre-homeric — of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
- 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.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
- protophloem — the part of the primary phloem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
- pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.