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11-letter words containing n, o, h, d

  • 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.
  • on one hand — from one point of view
  • on schedule — with no delay
  • on the dole — Someone who is on the dole is registered as unemployed and receives money from the government.
  • on the edge — at the rim
  • on the mend — to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy.
  • on the road — a novel (1957) by Jack Kerouac.
  • on the side — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
  • on the wind — as near as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
  • open-handed — generous; liberal: openhanded hospitality.
  • openhearted — Frank and candid.
  • ornithopods — Plural form of ornithopod.
  • orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
  • orthodontal — the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention and correction of irregular teeth, as by means of braces.
  • orthodontia — orthodontics.
  • orthodontic — Of, or relating to the dental speciality of orthodontics.
  • otter hound — one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.
  • out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • over-handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
  • overnighted — for or during the night: to stay overnight.
  • oxyhydrogen — pertaining to or involving a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen.
  • pentahedron — a solid figure having five faces.
  • phonofiddle — an upright, one-stringed musical instrument which also has a horn that acts as an amplifier, played with a bow whilst held between the knees
  • plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
  • pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
  • podophyllin — a resin, occurring as a light brown to greenish amorphous powder, obtained from podophyllum, and used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic and, locally, in the treatment of genital warts.
  • pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
  • pond hockey — ice hockey played on a frozen pond
  • pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
  • port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
  • powder horn — a powder flask made from the horn of a cow or ox.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • pseudophone — an instrument for producing illusory auditory localization by changing the relationship between the receptor and the actual direction of the sound.
  • push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • put on hold — suspend
  • qinhuangdao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
  • quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • quinhydrone — a dark green, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 1 2 H 1 0 O 4 , used in solution, together with a platinum wire, as an electrode (quinhy·drone elec·trode)
  • radiophonic — a radiotelephone.
  • radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
  • rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
  • 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).
  • remand home — a detention home for juvenile offenders aged 8–16 years.
  • rhabdomancy — divination by means of a rod or wand, especially in discovering ores, springs of water, etc.
  • rhinestoned — adorned with rhinestones
  • rhododaphne — a shrub with narrow, poisonous evergreen leaves and attractive pink flowers, also known as oleander or rosebay
  • rhynchodont — having a toothed beak
  • roadholding — A vehicle's roadholding is how easy it is to control safely in difficult driving conditions or when going round bends.
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