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

  • roman shade — a window shade that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds.
  • rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
  • rough lemon — a variety of lemon that has orange-yellow, rough-skinned fruit and is used as a rootstock for the cultivation of other citrus fruits.
  • sam houston — Sam(uel) 1793–1863, U.S. soldier and political leader: president of the Republic of Texas 1836–38 and 1841–44.
  • scotchwoman — Scotswoman.
  • scrimshoner — a person who makes scrimshaw
  • second home — an additional residence, as at the shore or in the country, where one goes on weekends, vacations, and the like.
  • semimonthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
  • serrano ham — cured ham from Spain
  • sex hormone — any of a class of steroid hormones that regulate the growth and function of the reproductive organs or stimulate the development of the secondary sexual characteristics.
  • shimonoseki — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: treaty ending Sino-Japanese War signed 1895.
  • short money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Commons to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1975
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • showjumping — horseriding event
  • showmanship — the skill or ability of a showman.
  • showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
  • shunt motor — A shunt motor is a direct current motor whose two windings are in parallel, with the same voltage across each.
  • simethicone — an active ingredient in many antacid preparations that causes small mucus-entrapped air bubbles in the intestines to coalesce into larger bubbles that are more easily passed.
  • siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
  • smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • smithsonite — a native carbonate of zinc, ZnCO 3 , that is an important ore of the metal.
  • smooth down — make flat and even
  • smoothhound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
  • solar month — month (def 4).
  • solar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • south yemen — Yemen (def 3).
  • southampton — Henry Wriothesley [rahy-uh ths-lee] /ˈraɪ əθs li/ (Show IPA), 3rd Earl of, 1573–1624, English nobleman, soldier, and patron of writers, including William Shakespeare.
  • southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
  • sphinx moth — hawk moth.
  • stench bomb — a small bomb made to emit a foul smell on exploding.
  • stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
  • stenochromy — the art of printing designs made of more than one colour using a single impression
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • symphonette — a small symphony orchestra that usually specializes in playing short, familiar classical works or salon music.
  • symphonious — harmonious; in harmonious agreement or accord.
  • synchromesh — noting or pertaining to a synchronized shifting mechanism.
  • synchromism — a movement of the early 20th century led by American artists and manifested in their experimentation with nonfigurative or entirely abstract paintings containing shapes and volumes of pure color. Compare Orphism (def 2).
  • synchronism — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • taphonomist — a specialist in taphonomy
  • technomania — an obsessional enthusiasm for technology
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • the commune — the revolutionary government of Paris from 1792 to 1794
  • the miocene — this epoch or rock series
  • the moer in — furious; enraged
  • the moonies — the Unification Church
  • thedominion — New Zealand
  • theobromine — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, C 7 H 8 N 4 O 2 , an isomer of theophylline and lower homologue of caffeine, occurring in tea and obtained from the cacao bean: used chiefly as a diuretic, myocardial stimulant, and vasodilator.
  • thermionics — the branch of physics that deals with thermionic phenomena.
  • thermocline — a layer of water in an ocean or certain lakes, where the temperature gradient is greater than that of the warmer layer above and the colder layer below.
  • thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
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