11-letter words containing n, i, h, l
- nephrolepis — any fern of the tropical genus Nephrolepis, some species of which are grown as ornamental greenhouse or house plants for their handsome deeply-cut drooping fronds: family Polypodiaceae
- nephroliths — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- netherlings — underwear
- neutrophile — (biology) Any organism that thrives in a relatively neutral pH.
- neutrophils — Plural form of neutrophil.
- new english — Modern English.
- nicholas ii — (Gérard de Bourgogne) died 1061, pope 1058–61.
- nicholas iv — (Girolamo Masci) died 1292, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1288–92.
- night latch — a door lock operated from the inside by a knob and from the outside by a key.
- night light — soft room light left on at night
- night table — a small table, chest, etc., for use next to a bed.
- night-blind — a condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight but abnormally poor at night or in a dim light; nyctalopia.
- night-light — a usually dim light kept burning at night, as in a child's bedroom.
- nightingale — Florence ("the Lady with the Lamp") 1820–1910, English nurse: reformer of hospital conditions and procedures; reorganizer of nurse's training programs.
- nightlights — Plural form of nightlight.
- nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
- nitro-chalk — a chemical fertilizer containing calcium carbonate and ammonium nitrate
- nitrophenol — any compound derived from phenol by the replacement of one or more of its ring hydrogen atoms by the nitro group.
- non-hostile — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- nonathletic — physically active and strong; good at athletics or sports: an athletic child.
- nonchemical — Not chemical.
- nonhospital — not related to, identified with, or taking place in a hospital
- nonphysical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- northcliffe — Viscount, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.
- northerlies — Plural form of northerly.
- notaphilist — a person who studies or collects paper money
- nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
- novelettish — Resembling or characteristic of a novelette.
- nucleophile — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- oil varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- old english — Also called Anglo-Saxon. the English language of a.d. c450–c1150. Abbreviation: OE.
- old spanish — the Spanish language of the 12th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OSp.
- omnichannel — Using every channel.
- on the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- on the nail — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- onycholysis — (medicine) The loosening or separation of a fingernail or toenail from its bed.
- ornithology — the branch of zoology that deals with birds.
- pancha sila — a standard recitation of Hinayanists, including repetitions of formulas and of vows to abstain from anger, lust, cowardice, malevolence, and to abstain from the desire for possessions and unwholesome pleasures.
- panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
- panhandling — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
- panhellenic — of or relating to all Greeks or to Panhellenism.
- paphlagonia — an ancient country and Roman province in N Asia Minor, on the S coast of the Black Sea.
- paronychial — of or relating to paronychia
- phainopepla — a crested passerine bird, Phainopepla nitens, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- phallotoxin — any of a group of potent mycotoxins produced by certain mushroom species of the genus Amanita.
- phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
- phenylamine — aniline.
- philanderer — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- philhellene — a friend or supporter of the Greeks.