11-letter words containing o, h, m
- 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
- shuddersome — tending to shudder
- 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
- small hours — pre-dawn
- smallholder — owner of small plot of land
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smash-mouth — designating or of a style of football characterized by rough, aggressive play and, typically, strong offensive rushing
- smithsonite — a native carbonate of zinc, ZnCO 3 , that is an important ore of the metal.
- smoke shelf — a ledge at the bottom of a smoke chamber, so made as to deflect or break downdrafts from the chimney.
- smokechaser — a person who fights forest fires, especially one with lightweight equipment.
- smooth away — to remove (difficulties, obstacles, etc.)
- smooth down — make flat and even
- smooth over — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- smooth-talk — to persuade by flattery, cajolery, coaxing, or the like: We smooth-talked the company into a huge donation.
- smoothhound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
- so much for — So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject.
- 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.
- solo mother — a mother with a dependent child or dependent children and no spouse
- somersworth — a town in SE New Hampshire.
- somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
- south miami — a town in S Florida.
- 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.
- speech form — linguistic form.
- spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
- spermophyte — spermatophyte.
- spherometer — an instrument for measuring the curvature of spheres and curved surfaces.
- sphinx moth — hawk moth.
- sphygmogram — a tracing or diagram produced by a sphygmograph.
- sphygmology — the study and examination of the pulse
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- 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
- stethometer — an instrument for measuring the expansion of the chest and abdomen during respiration.
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- stomachache — pain in the stomach or abdomen; colic.
- stomachless — lacking or not having a stomach
- storm house — a storm cellar.
- storm watch — watch (def 20).
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- summerhouse — a simple, often rustic structure in a park or garden, intended to provide shade in the summer.
- supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
- symphonette — a small symphony orchestra that usually specializes in playing short, familiar classical works or salon music.