11-letter words containing o, m, h
- broken home — a family in which one parent is absent, usually due to divorce or desertion: children from broken homes.
- brush broom — Northeastern U.S. a whisk broom.
- bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- cactus moth — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, native to South America and introduced into Australia to control prickly pear cactus, on which the larvae feed.
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- cameraphone — a mobile phone incorporating a camera
- camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
- camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
- camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
- camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
- camphorweed — vinegarweed.
- camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
- carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
- case method — Also called case-study method [keys-stuhd-ee] /ˈkeɪsˈstʌd i/ (Show IPA). the teaching or elucidation of a subject or issue through analysis and discussion of actual cases, as in business education.
- case*method — An analysis and design method from Oracle targeted at information management applications.
- cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
- catholicism — Catholicism is the traditions, the behaviour, and the set of Christian beliefs that are held by Catholics.
- cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
- cephalotomy — the dissection of the head
- ceramic hob — (on an electric cooker) a flat ceramic cooking surface having heating elements fitted on the underside, usually patterned to show the areas where heat is produced
- chaenomeles — any of a genus of deciduous shrubs within the family Rosaceae, native to East Asia
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- chalazogamy — (of plants) the process of fertilization whereby the pollen tube penetrates the embryosac through the chalaza rather than through the micropyle
- chamaedorea — any of various small, slender palms of the genus Chamaedorea, several species of which are cultivated as houseplants.
- chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
- chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
- chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
- chameleonic — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- champignons — Plural form of champignon.
- championess — a female champion
- championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
- charactonym — a name given to a literary character that is descriptive of a quality or trait of the character.
- chasmogamic — relating or pertaining to chasmogamy
- chaulmoogra — a tropical Asian tree, Taraktogenos (or Hydnocarpus) kurzii: family Flacourtiaceae
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- chemiotaxis — Dated form of chemotaxis.
- chemisorbed — Simple past tense and past participle of chemisorb.
- chemoreflex — a reflex caused by a chemical stimulus.
- chemosensor — A cell in a sense organ that can convert a chemical stimulus into some form of action.
- chemosmosis — chemical action between substances that are separated by a semipermeable membrane
- chemosphere — an atmospheric zone about 19 to 80 km (11.8 to 49.7 mi) above the earth's surface, in which photochemical reactions take place
- chemotactic — oriented movement toward or away from a chemical stimulus.
- chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
- cheremkhovo — a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, near Lake Baikal.
- chernozemic — of or relating to a chernozem
- cherry bomb — a powerful firecracker that is shaped like a cherry