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11-letter words containing o, n, a, s, h, e

  • nanospheres — Plural form of nanosphere.
  • nearshoring — the practice of moving one's employees or business activities from a distant country back to a country that is nearby: The U.S.-based company is focusing on the nearshoring of its customer-service operations from India to Canada. Compare offshoring.
  • no mean sth — You can use no mean in expressions such as 'no mean writer' and 'no mean golfer' to indicate that someone does something well.
  • noah's dove — the constellation Columba.
  • nonadhesive — coated with glue, paste, mastic, or other sticky substance: adhesive bandages.
  • nonwashable — Not washable.
  • northeaster — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northeast.
  • noun phrase — a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
  • nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
  • octahedrons — Plural form of octahedron.
  • offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
  • 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.
  • onslaughter — An onslaught.
  • orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
  • other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
  • paint horse — paint (def 6).
  • 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.
  • panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
  • paranephros — the adrenal gland
  • parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
  • peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
  • phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • phonematics — phonemics.
  • phonetastic — (communications)   A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
  • rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
  • ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
  • rhône-alpes — a region of E France: mainly mountainous, rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the east; drained by the Rivers Rhône, Saône, and Isère
  • roman shade — a window shade that, when raised, is drawn up into a series of concertina folds.
  • saddle horn — horn (def 19).
  • sand hopper — beach flea.
  • scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • schecklaton — a gilded leather used for embroidering jacks
  • schollander — Donald ("Don") born 1946, U.S. swimmer.
  • second hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
  • second-half — happening in the second half of a game
  • second-hand — the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • serrano ham — cured ham from Spain
  • servanthood — the condition of being a servant
  • shacklebone — the wrist
  • shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
  • shake on it — to shake hands in agreement, reconciliation, etc
  • shallowness — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
  • sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
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