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

  • roman shade — a window shade that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds.
  • roundarched — having semicircular arches
  • roundheaded — (of a person) possessing a round head; brachycephalic.
  • saddle horn — horn (def 19).
  • sand hopper — beach flea.
  • sash window — A sash window is a window which consists of two frames placed one above the other. The window can be opened by sliding one frame over the other.
  • schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
  • school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
  • 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.
  • second hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
  • second home — an additional residence, as at the shore or in the country, where one goes on weekends, vacations, and the like.
  • second-half — happening in the second half of a game
  • second-hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
  • servanthood — the condition of being a servant
  • shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
  • sharp-nosed — having a thin, pointed nose.
  • shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
  • shootaround — an informal match or practice session
  • shop around — compare prices
  • shop window — storefront display
  • shop-window — a window used for display of merchandise.
  • show around — guide round a new place
  • show window — a display window in a store.
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • shunt-wound — noting a motor or a generator that has the field circuit connected in parallel with the armature winding.
  • sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
  • smooth down — make flat and even
  • smoothhound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
  • snapshotted — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
  • soda siphon — fizzy water dispenser
  • sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
  • sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
  • south devon — a breed of large red cattle originally from South Devon
  • south downs — a range of low hills, from Hampshire to East Sussex, in S England.
  • south ogden — a town in N Utah.
  • south sudan — a landlocked republic in NE Africa, in the Sahel region; formerly part of Sudan: became independent after a referendum in 2011, following a long civil war. Languages: English, Arabic. Religions: Christian, animist. Currency: South Sudanese Pound. Capital: Juba. Pop: 11 090 104 (2013 est). Area: 644 329 sq km (248 777 sq miles)
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • standoffish — somewhat aloof or reserved; cold and unfriendly.
  • stonewashed — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • sundry shop — (in Malaysia) a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese foodstuffs
  • switched on — turned-on (def 1).
  • switched-on — turned-on (def 1).
  • synecdochic — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • tetrahedron — Geometry. a solid contained by four plane faces; a triangular pyramid.
  • the dolphin — the constellation Delphinus
  • the old one — a jocular name for Satan
  • the top end — the northern part of the Northern Territory
  • the wounded — persons wounded, esp. in warfare
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