11-letter words containing o, h, i, g, n
- outpouching — (pathology) evagination.
- outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
- outweighing — Present participle of outweigh.
- overarching — forming an arch above: great trees with overarching branches.
- 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.
- overhanging — extending or dangling
- overheating — heating (something) excessively
- overhunting — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- overnighted — for or during the night: to stay overnight.
- overnighter — an overnight stay or trip.
- overtighten — to tighten too much
- paphlagonia — an ancient country and Roman province in N Asia Minor, on the S coast of the Black Sea.
- philologian — a philologist.
- phonologist — a specialist in phonology.
- physiognomy — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- pigeon hawk — merlin.
- pigeon-hole — one of a series of small, open compartments, as in a desk, cabinet, or the like, used for filing or sorting papers, letters, etc.
- pigeonholer — someone who likes to pigeonhole people or things
- plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
- potshotting — the act of taking potshots
- 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.
- qinhuangdao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
- renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
- right money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- roadholding — A vehicle's roadholding is how easy it is to control safely in difficult driving conditions or when going round bends.
- roughing-in — the act or process of applying a base coat of plaster to a masonry surface.
- schizogenic — reproducing or formed by fission.
- schizogonic — relating to schizogony
- schoolgoing — the act of going to 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.
- scorchingly — in a scorching manner
- sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
- shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- showing-off — behaviour designed to impress people
- showjumping — horseriding event
- 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
- single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
- siphonogamy — a mode of pollination in which pollen tubes develop to facilitate the passage of male cells to eggs
- snowshoeing — the activity of taking part in cross-country walks over snow
- soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
- southington — a town in central Connecticut.
- sphingosine — a basic unsaturated amino alcohol, C 1 8 H 3 3 (OH) 2 NH 2 , produced by the hydrolysis of sphingomyelin or gangliosides.
- 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.