11-letter words containing s, a, h, r, n
- monarchists — Plural form of monarchist.
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- nailbrushes — Plural form of nailbrush.
- nanospheres — Plural form of nanosphere.
- 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.
- 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.
- nearsighted — seeing distinctly at a short distance only; myopic.
- netherlands — the, (used with a singular or plural verb) a kingdom in W Europe, bordering on the North Sea, Germany, and Belgium. 13,433 sq. mi. (34,790 sq. km). Capitals: Amsterdam and The Hague.
- nettle rash — urticaria resulting from contact with various plants causing local irritation.
- niggerheads — Plural form of niggerhead.
- nightdreams — Plural form of nightdream.
- nightmarish — resembling a nightmare, especially in being terrifying, exasperating, or the like: his nightmarish experience in a concentration camp.
- nitrostarch — an orange powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 8 O 2 6 , soluble in ethanol, used in explosives.
- north adams — a city in NW Massachusetts.
- 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
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- nurse shark — any of several sharks of the family Orectolobidae, especially Ginglymostoma cirratum, occurring in shallow waters from Rhode Island to Brazil and the Gulf of California to Ecuador.
- oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.
- octahedrons — Plural form of octahedron.
- offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
- oil varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- onslaughter — An onslaught.
- orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
- ornithosaur — an extinct flying reptile
- other ranks — (in the armed forces) all those who do not hold a commissioned rank
- pachysandra — any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
- 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.
- paranephros — the adrenal gland
- parchedness — the state or characteristic of being parched
- parentheses — either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
- parenthesis — either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
- parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
- partnership — the state or condition of being a partner; participation; association; joint interest.
- patron-ship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patroonship — a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
- phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
- 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).
- pharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membrane of the pharynx; sore throat.
- phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
- plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
- planisphere — a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time.
- plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
- prank flash — a short film or animation linked surreptitiously to an innocuous website, intended to shock unsuspecting and easily-offended users of the internet
- pre-spanish — of or relating to Spain, its people, or their language.
- preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one