11-letter words containing o, n, h
- moonlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of moonlight.
- moonlighter — the light of the moon.
- moonshiners — Plural form of moonshiner.
- moonshining — the practice of illegally making or smuggling distilled spirits
- morgan hill — a town in W California.
- morphogenic — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- moshe dayan — Moshe [maw-she;; English moh-shuh] /mɔˈʃɛ;; English ˈmoʊ ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1915–81, Israeli politician and military leader: defense minister 1967–74, foreign minister 1977–79.
- mothballing — Present participle of mothball.
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- mount athos — a mountainous peninsula in NE Greece: location of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos, an autonomous administrative division of Greece since 1927; inhabited by Eastern Orthodox monks in about 20 monasteries, some founded in the 10th century; prohibited to women and children. Pop: 1942 (2001)
- mouth organ — harmonica (def 1).
- multiphoton — involving several photons
- mushrooming — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- mutton chop — cutlet of sheep's meat
- muttonchops — The whiskers on a man's cheek when shaped like a meat chop, narrow at the top and broad and rounded at the bottom.
- muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
- mythomaniac — lying or exaggerating to an abnormal degree.
- nacogdoches — a city in N Texas.
- nail polish — a polish of quick-drying lacquer, either clear or colored, used to paint the fingernails or toenails.
- nanomachine — nanobot.
- nanophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the nanometre range or of phenomena occurring in nanoseconds
- nanospheres — Plural form of nanosphere.
- naphazoline — 2-(1-naphthylmethyl)-2-imidazoline hydrochloride, a sympathomimetic agent used as a vasoconstrictor.
- nasopharynx — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
- naturopaths — Plural form of naturopath.
- naturopathy — a system or method of treating disease that employs no surgery or synthetic drugs but uses special diets, herbs, vitamins, massage, etc., to assist the natural healing processes.
- neanthropic — of or relating to modern forms of humans as compared with extinct species of the genus Homo.
- 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.
- necrophagan — (zoology) Any of the tribe Necrophaga of beetles whose larvae feed on carrion.
- necrophagia — the eating of dead bodies; esp., the practice of feeding on carrion
- necrophilia — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- necrophilic — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- necrophobia — an abnormal fear of death; thanatophobia.
- negrophobia — strong fear or dislike of black people.
- neighboring — situated or living near another: one of our neighbor nations.
- neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
- nematomorph — any member of the phylum Nematomorpha, having a threadlike body, comprising the horsehair worms.
- nematophore — (within the coenosarc of certain colonial hydrozoans) a small specialized tentacle-like polyp having nematocysts
- nemophilist — (rare) One who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
- neo-hebraic — Hebrew as spoken and written since the Diaspora
- neoorthodox — adhering to the principles of neoorthodoxy.
- nephoscopes — Plural form of nephoscope.
- nephrectomy — excision of a kidney.
- nephrogenic — (medicine, anatomy) that forms the tissues of the kidney.
- nephrolepis — any fern of the tropical genus Nephrolepis, some species of which are grown as ornamental greenhouse or house plants for their handsome deeply-cut drooping fronds: family Polypodiaceae
- nephroliths — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- nephropathy — any disease of the kidney.
- nephroscope — (surgery) An instrument used to examine the kidney through an inserted tube.
- nephrostome — Zoology. the ciliated opening of a nephridium into the coelom.
- nephrotoxic — Damaging or destructive to the kidneys.