11-letter words containing n, o, h, i, s, p
- physiognomy — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- polyphonist — a musical composer of or theorist in polyphony
- potshotting — the act of taking potshots
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- 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.
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- psychogenic — having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process: a psychogenic disorder.
- psychonomic — of or relating to psychonomics
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
- saxophonist — musician who plays saxophone
- schoonschip — (mathematics, tool) (From the Dutch for "beautiful ship" or "clean ship") A program for symbolic mathematics, especially High Energy Physics, written by M. Veltman of CERN in 1964. Schoonschip only does algebra, no derivatives. It was implemented originally in CDC 6600 and CDC 7600 assembly language and currently in 680x0 assembly language. Runs on Amiga, Atari ST, Sun-3 and NeXT. It was once maintained by David Williams at the University of Michigan Physics Department.
- scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
- scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- shop window — storefront display
- shop-window — a window used for display of merchandise.
- shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- showjumping — horseriding event
- showmanship — the skill or ability of a showman.
- siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
- soda siphon — fizzy water dispenser
- sphingosine — a basic unsaturated amino alcohol, C 1 8 H 3 3 (OH) 2 NH 2 , produced by the hydrolysis of sphingomyelin or gangliosides.
- sphinx moth — hawk moth.
- sponsorship — a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing.
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- spy-hopping — a vertical half-rise out of the water performed by a whale in order to view the surroundings. a springing bounce in tall grasses performed by certain land mammals, as foxes and wolves, to view the surroundings.
- stephanotis — any vine belonging to the genus Stephanotis, of the milkweed family, having fragrant, waxy, white flowers and leathery leaves.
- sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- symphonious — harmonious; in harmonious agreement or accord.
- taphonomist — a specialist in taphonomy
- technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
- telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
- thanatopsis — a view or contemplation of death.
- transphobia — unreasoning hostility, aversion, etc., toward transgender people.
- whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
- window-shop — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
- witherspoon — John, 1723–94, U.S. theologian and statesman, born in Scotland.
- workmanship — the art or skill of a workman or workwoman.
- worshipping — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- xylophonist — A person who plays or performs with the xylophone.
- zincographs — Plural form of zincograph.