11-letter words containing s, c, h, i
- microswitch — a highly sensitive switch used in automatic-control devices.
- midas touch — the ability to turn any business venture one is associated with into an extremely profitable one.
- milch glass — milk glass.
- mill chisel — a woodworking chisel having a blade more than 8 inches (20 cm) long.
- misch metal — a pyrophoric alloy, containing approximately 50 percent cerium and 45 percent lanthanum, made from a mixture of various rare-earth chlorides by electrolysis.
- mischarging — Present participle of mischarge.
- mischevious — Misconstruction of mischievous.
- mischieving — (now Scotland) The causing of damage or terror; rampaging. (from 15th c.).
- mischievous — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- mismatching — Present participle of mismatch.
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- misteaching — Present participle of misteach.
- mochaccinos — Plural form of mochaccino.
- moesogothic — of or relating to the Moesogoths or their language.
- monarchists — Plural form of monarchist.
- monochasial — Relating to the monochasium.
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- moss stitch — a knitting stitch made up of alternate plain and purl stitches
- moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multischeme — An implementation of Multilisp built on MIT's C-Scheme, for the BBN Butterfly.
- musk orchid — a small Eurasian orchid, Herminium monorchis, with dense spikes of musk-scented greenish-yellow flowers
- mustachioed — a mustache.
- mycophagist — a fungus-eating organism.
- mycorrhizas — Plural form of mycorrhiza.
- nanophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the nanometre range or of phenomena occurring in nanoseconds
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- nicholas ii — (Gérard de Bourgogne) died 1061, pope 1058–61.
- nicholas iv — (Girolamo Masci) died 1292, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1288–92.
- nietzschean — the philosophy of Nietzsche, emphasizing the will to power as the chief motivating force of both the individual and society.
- night stick — a special club carried by a policeman; billy.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- nightsticks — Plural form of nightstick.
- nimzowitsch — Aaron Isayevich (ɪˈzaɪjɛvɪtʃ) 1886–1935, Latvian chess player and theorist; influential in enunciating the principles of the hypermodern school, of which he was the main instigator
- nitrostarch — an orange powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 8 O 2 6 , soluble in ethanol, used in explosives.
- noncohesive — characterized by or causing cohesion: a cohesive agent.
- nonphysical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- nontheistic — the belief in one God as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation (distinguished from deism).
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- officership — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- oligarchies — Plural form of oligarchy.
- onycholysis — (medicine) The loosening or separation of a fingernail or toenail from its bed.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- ophicleides — Plural form of ophicleide.
- orchardists — Plural form of orchardist.
- orchestrina — (musical instruments) orchestrion.
- orchestrion — a mechanical musical instrument, resembling a barrel organ but more elaborate, for producing the effect of an orchestra.
- orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
- orthopedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.