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

  • autophanous — illuminated by a self-contained power source
  • axanthopsia — a defect of vision in which the retina fails to respond to yellow.
  • balloonfish — a porcupinefish, Diodon holacanthus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical waters.
  • baryshnikov — Mikhail. born 1948, Soviet-born ballet dancer, who defected (1974) to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet: director (1980–90) of the American Ballet Theatre
  • basset horn — an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family
  • bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
  • beanshooter — peashooter
  • behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
  • benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
  • boatmanship — boatsmanship.
  • bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
  • bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
  • bone shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bone-shaker — an early-model bicycle, especially one with hard rubber tires.
  • bonefishing — the activity of fishing for bonefish
  • bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
  • boorishness — of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
  • breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
  • brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • bushhogging — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
  • cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
  • cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
  • cannon-shot — the range of a cannon
  • canophilist — a person who loves dogs
  • cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
  • casing shoe — A casing shoe is the bottom of the casing string, including the cement around it.
  • cast anchor — to anchor a vessel
  • cataphonics — catacoustics
  • chaenomeles — any of a genus of deciduous shrubs within the family Rosaceae, native to East Asia
  • chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
  • chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
  • chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
  • chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
  • champignons — Plural form of champignon.
  • championess — a female champion
  • chancellors — Plural form of chancellor.
  • changeovers — Plural form of changeover.
  • chansonette — a little song
  • chansonnier — a writer of chansons
  • chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
  • chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
  • chardonnays — Plural form of chardonnay.
  • charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
  • checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
  • chemosensor — A cell in a sense organ that can convert a chemical stimulus into some form of action.
  • cherrystone — a small or not fully-grown edible clam of the genus Mercenaria, found in the waters off the Atlantic coast of North America
  • chersoneses — Plural form of chersonese.
  • chessboxing — a sport in which participants contest alternating rounds of chess and boxing, of four and two minutes respectively
  • chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
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