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

  • orchestrion — a mechanical musical instrument, resembling a barrel organ but more elaborate, for producing the effect of an orchestra.
  • ornithopods — Plural form of ornithopod.
  • ornithosaur — an extinct flying reptile
  • orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
  • paint horse — paint (def 6).
  • 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.
  • phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
  • phonematics — phonemics.
  • phonetastic — (communications)   A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
  • phoneticism — a phonetic scheme of writing
  • phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
  • phonologist — a specialist in phonology.
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • polyphonist — a musical composer of or theorist in polyphony
  • potshotting — the act of taking potshots
  • prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • rhinestoned — adorned with rhinestones
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
  • saxophonist — musician who plays saxophone
  • scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
  • scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
  • semimonthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
  • senatorship — the office or position of a senator
  • shake on it — to shake hands in agreement, reconciliation, etc
  • sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
  • shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • shirt front — the front of a shirt, especially the part that is exposed when a jacket or vest is worn.
  • shoe-string — a shoelace.
  • shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
  • shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • simethicone — an active ingredient in many antacid preparations that causes small mucus-entrapped air bubbles in the intestines to coalesce into larger bubbles that are more easily passed.
  • single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
  • sir anthony — Sir Anthony, Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
  • smithsonite — a native carbonate of zinc, ZnCO 3 , that is an important ore of the metal.
  • sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
  • soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
  • sottishness — the state of being sottish
  • sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
  • southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
  • southernize — to make or become southern
  • southington — a town in central Connecticut.
  • sphinx moth — hawk moth.
  • standoffish — somewhat aloof or reserved; cold and unfriendly.
  • stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
  • stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
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