11-letter words containing o, h, m
- churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
- chylomicron — a minute droplet of fat, found in blood and chyle, that is the form in which dietary fat is carried in these fluids
- chymiferous — containing chyme
- chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
- co-chairman — one of two or more joint chairmen.
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- coenenchyma — gelatinous material uniting the polyps of an anthozoan colony
- coenenchyme — the gelatinous framework between polyps of an anthozoan colony
- collenchyma — a strengthening and supporting tissue in plants, consisting of elongated living cells whose walls are thickened with cellulose and pectins
- collenchyme — Botany. a gelatinous, thickened, and usually elongated cell that is part of a layer of modified tissue in some plants.
- cologarithm — the logarithm of the reciprocal of a number; the negative value of the logarithm
- column inch — a unit of measurement for advertising space, one inch deep and one column wide
- come-hither — alluring; seductive
- comedy show — a funny programme on TV or radio
- commis chef — an apprentice chef
- complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
- comprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprehend.
- comradeship — Comradeship is friendship between a number of people who are doing the same work or who share the same difficulties or dangers.
- coppersmith — a person who works copper or copper alloys
- cosmography — a representation of the world or the universe
- cosmosphere — a device consisting of a glass globe on which the stars are shown, and within which is another globe representing the Earth, that shows the position of the Earth, at any given time, in relation to the stars
- cosmothetic — positing the existence of the external world
- cottonmouth — water moccasin
- countermyth — a myth that conflicts with another myth
- county home — a county poorhouse.
- cpt theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
- crithomancy — a form of divination in which grain or meal used in a sacrifice is analysed
- cross-match — to test the compatibility of (a donor's and recipient's blood) by checking that the red cells of each do not agglutinate in the other's serum
- customhouse — a building or office where customs or duties are paid and ships are cleared for entering or leaving
- cyclothymia — a condition characterized by periodical swings of mood between excitement and depression, activity and inactivity
- cyclothymic — Of or pertaining to cyclothymia.
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- cytochromes — Plural form of cytochrome.
- dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
- dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
- dead-smooth — noting a double-cut metal file having the minimum commercial grade of coarseness.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- delightsome — highly pleasing; delightful.
- demob-happy — feeling elated in anticipation of demobilization from the armed forces
- demographer — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- demographic — Demographic means relating to or concerning demography.
- demolishing — Present participle of demolish.
- demosthenes — 384–322 bc, Athenian statesman, orator, and lifelong opponent of the power of Macedonia over Greece
- dermography — a type of marking on the skin, whether in the form of writing or pictures, supposedly of psychic origin, similar to stigmata except for being more short-lived
- diachronism — the passage of a geological formation across time planes, as occurs when a marine sediment laid down by an advancing sea is noticeably younger in the direction of advancement
- diamorphine — heroin.
- dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
- dichotomies — Botany. a mode of branching by constant forking, as in some stems, in veins of leaves, etc.
- dichotomise — to divide or separate into two parts, kinds, etc.