11-letter words containing n, s, h
- nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
- nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- novelettish — Resembling or characteristic of a novelette.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- nun's cloth — a thin soft plain-weave silk or worsted fabric used for veils, dresses, etc
- nunnishness — the condition of relating to or having a similarity to a nun
- nurse shark — any of several sharks of the family Orectolobidae, especially Ginglymostoma cirratum, occurring in shallow waters from Rhode Island to Brazil and the Gulf of California to Ecuador.
- nyctanthous — (of plants) flowering at night
- nympholepsy — an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
- nympholepts — Plural form of nympholept.
- oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.
- octahedrons — Plural form of octahedron.
- oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
- oil varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- 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.
- omnitheists — Plural form of omnitheist.
- on schedule — with no delay
- on the bias — A dress or skirt that is cut on the bias or that is bias-cut has been cut diagonally across the material so that it hangs down in a particular way.
- on the case — If you say that someone is on the case, you mean that they are aware of a particular problem and are trying to resolve it.
- on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
- on the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- on the outs — on unfriendly terms
- on the piss — drinking alcohol, esp in large quantities
- 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 spin — one after another
- on the spot — Radio, Television. pertaining to the point of origin of a local broadcast. broadcast between announced programs.
- on-the-spot — done or occurring at the time or place in question: an on-the-spot recording.
- onslaughter — An onslaught.
- onycholysis — (medicine) The loosening or separation of a fingernail or toenail from its bed.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- openinsight — (programming, database) The workflow-enabled Windows 95/Windows NT version of Advanced Revelation, featuring native support for Lotus Notes, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and ODBC. OpenInsight is available from Revelation Software.
- opisthokont — (biology) Any of very many eukaryotes whose flagellate cells propel themselves with a single posterior flagellum.
- orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
- orchestrion — a mechanical musical instrument, resembling a barrel organ but more elaborate, for producing the effect of an orchestra.
- ornithopods — Plural form of ornithopod.
- ornithosaur — an extinct flying reptile
- orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
- other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
- overfishing — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- overnourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- oxyrhynchus — a fish found in the Nile, sometimes depicted on Egyptian sculptures and coins
- ozonosphere — Meteorology. the layer of the upper atmosphere where most atmospheric ozone is concentrated, from about 8 to 30 miles (12 to 48 km) above the earth, with the maximum ozone concentration occurring at an altitude of about 12 miles (19 km).
- pachysandra — any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
- pan-atheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pancha sila — a standard recitation of Hinayanists, including repetitions of formulas and of vows to abstain from anger, lust, cowardice, malevolence, and to abstain from the desire for possessions and unwholesome pleasures.
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.