11-letter words containing o, n, r, u, s, h
- john sutter — John Augustus, 1803–80, U.S. frontiersman: owner of Sutter's Mill.
- kongur shan — a mountain in China, in W Xinjiang: the highest peak in the Pamirs. Height: 7719 m (25 325 ft)
- manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- monorhinous — having a single, median nostril, as the cyclostomes.
- mushrooming — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- naturopaths — Plural form of naturopath.
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- neutrophils — Plural form of neutrophil.
- neutrosophy — (philosophy) (From Latin "neuter" - neutral, Greek "sophia" - skill/wisdom) A branch of philosophy, introduced by Florentin Smarandache in 1980, which studies the origin, nature, and scope of neutralities, as well as their interactions with different ideational spectra. Neutrosophy considers a proposition, theory, event, concept, or entity, "A" in relation to its opposite, "Anti-A" and that which is not A, "Non-A", and that which is neither "A" nor "Anti-A", denoted by "Neut-A". Neutrosophy is the basis of neutrosophic logic, neutrosophic probability, neutrosophic set, and neutrosophic statistics.
- 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
- nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
- onslaughter — An onslaught.
- ornithosaur — an extinct flying reptile
- overnourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- oxyrhynchus — a fish found in the Nile, sometimes depicted on Egyptian sculptures and coins
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- shootaround — an informal match or practice session
- shop around — compare prices
- show around — guide round a new place
- shower unit — fitted shower
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- shunt motor — A shunt motor is a direct current motor whose two windings are in parallel, with the same voltage across each.
- song thrush — a common, European songbird, Turdus philomelos.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- southernize — to make or become southern
- southlander — a person from the south
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
- sundry shop — (in Malaysia) a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese foodstuffs
- sure enough — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- sure-enough — real; genuine.
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- synchronous — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- thrust upon — If something is thrust upon you, you are forced to have it, deal with it, or experience it.
- touchscreen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
- un-showered — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
- underhonest — not fully honest