11-letter words containing o, r, t, h
- worthington — a town in central Ohio.
- worthlessly — In a worthless manner.
- wrong thing — (jargon) A design, action, or decision that is clearly incorrect or inappropriate. Often capitalised; always emphasised in speech as if capitalised. The opposite of the Right Thing; more generally, anything that is not the Right Thing. In cases where "the good is the enemy of the best", the merely good - although good - is nevertheless the Wrong Thing. "In C, the default is for module-level declarations to be visible everywhere, rather than just within the module. This is clearly the Wrong Thing."
- x-ray photo — a picture produced by exposing photographic film to X-rays
- xanthophore — a chromatophore containing a yellow pigment, as in some cold-blooded animals.
- xerophytism — (botany) The adaptation of plants to habitats where water is scarce.
- xerothermic — of or relating to the condition of being dry and hot: a xerothermic climate.
- yet another — (jargon) (YA-, after Unix's yacc - Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is. As in "Yet Another AI Group" or "Yet Another Simulated Annealing Algorithm". If used of others' work, it describes something of which there are already far too many. In hackish acronyms the "YA" prefix almost invariably expands to Yet Another, e.g. YABA, YAUN.
- yoghurt pot — a small, usually plastic, container that is used for selling yogurt and, when empty, is often used as a craft material
- youth court — a court that deals with juvenile offenders and children beyond parental control or in need of care
- youth crime — crime committed by juvenile offenders
- youth group — an organization of young people, as for social purposes, usually under the sponsorship of a church, political organization, or the like.
- zero growth — a lack of increase or development
- zoantharian — of or relating to the Zoantharia, a group of animals including all stony corals and sea anemones
- zoanthropic — relating to or displaying zoanthropy