11-letter words containing n, s, h
- misshipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- missishness — the qualities or characteristics of a young woman or girl
- missolonghi — a town in W Greece, on the Gulf of Patras: Byron died here 1824.
- misteaching — Present participle of misteach.
- mochaccinos — Plural form of mochaccino.
- monarchists — Plural form of monarchist.
- monitorship — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
- monkeyshine — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
- monochasial — Relating to the monochasium.
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- monochromes — Plural form of monochrome.
- monohybrids — Plural form of monohybrid.
- monolithism — an obelisk, column, large statue, etc., formed of a single block of stone.
- monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
- monophysite — a person who maintains that Christ has one nature, partly divine and partly human.
- monorhinous — having a single, median nostril, as the cyclostomes.
- monostrophe — a poem in which all the strophes or stanzas are of the same metrical form.
- months-mind — a Requiem Mass said on the thirtieth day after a person's death or burial.
- moonshiners — Plural form of moonshiner.
- moonshining — the practice of illegally making or smuggling distilled spirits
- moshe dayan — Moshe [maw-she;; English moh-shuh] /mɔˈʃɛ;; English ˈmoʊ ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1915–81, Israeli politician and military leader: defense minister 1967–74, foreign minister 1977–79.
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- mount athos — a mountainous peninsula in NE Greece: location of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos, an autonomous administrative division of Greece since 1927; inhabited by Eastern Orthodox monks in about 20 monasteries, some founded in the 10th century; prohibited to women and children. Pop: 1942 (2001)
- mumpishness — the state or quality of being mumpish
- munchhausen — Karl Friedrich Hieronymus [kahrl free-drikh hee-ey-roh-ny-moo s] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx ˌhi eɪˈroʊ nüˌmʊs/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1720–97, German soldier, adventurer, and teller of tales.
- mushrooming — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- muttonchops — The whiskers on a man's cheek when shaped like a meat chop, narrow at the top and broad and rounded at the bottom.
- muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
- myxasthenia — defective secretion of mucus.
- nacogdoches — a city in N Texas.
- nail polish — a polish of quick-drying lacquer, either clear or colored, used to paint the fingernails or toenails.
- nailbrushes — Plural form of nailbrush.
- nanophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the nanometre range or of phenomena occurring in nanoseconds
- nanospheres — Plural form of nanosphere.
- nasopharynx — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
- native bush — indigenous forest
- naturopaths — Plural form of naturopath.
- naughtiness — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
- nearshoring — the practice of moving one's employees or business activities from a distant country back to a country that is nearby: The U.S.-based company is focusing on the nearshoring of its customer-service operations from India to Canada. Compare offshoring.
- nearsighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- nemophilist — (rare) One who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
- nephoscopes — Plural form of nephoscope.
- 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.
- nephroscope — (surgery) An instrument used to examine the kidney through an inserted tube.
- nephrostome — Zoology. the ciliated opening of a nephridium into the coelom.
- net fishing — Fishing using a net, esp a large commercial drift net
- netherlands — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
- netherlings — underwear
- netherstock — a stocking