13-letter words containing s, h, i, t, o, n
- lighthouseman — a lighthouse keeper
- lightsomeness — (archaic) The quality of being lightsome.
- line of sight — Also called line of sighting. an imaginary straight line running through the aligned sights of a firearm, surveying equipment, etc.
- lithesomeness — the quality of being flexible and supple
- mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
- mechanisation — Alternative spelling of mechanization.
- meeting house — a house or building for religious worship.
- meeting-house — a house or building for religious worship.
- meetinghouses — Plural form of meetinghouse.
- minstrel show — a once popular type of stage show featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors traditionally comprising two end men, a chorus in blackface, and an interlocutor. Developed in the U.S. in the 19th century, this entertainment portrayed negative racial stereotypes and declined in popularity in the 20th century.
- misanthropist — a hater of humankind.
- mnemotechnics — the process or technique of improving or developing the memory.
- monmouthshire — a historic county in E Wales, now part of Gwent, Mid Glamorgan, and South Glamorgan.
- monophysitism — (Christianity) A Christian belief which holds that the human nature of Jesus Christ was essentially absorbed by the divine, and thus that he essentially had but one nature, contrary to the orthodox view that Christ has two natures, both fully human and fully divine. A variant is apollonarianism, which has gnostic overtones and used hellenistic ideas alien to orthodox Christianity.
- monostrophics — monostrophic verses
- monotheletism — the 7th-century religious doctrine that stated that Christ has only one divine will but both a divine and a human nature
- monothelitism — a person who maintains that Christ has a single theanthropic will.
- monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
- mythologising — Present participle of mythologise.
- nanochemistry — (chemistry) The synthesis, analysis and characterization of chemical compounds at the nanoscale.
- nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.
- nephropathies — Plural form of nephropathy.
- night terrors — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- night-terrors — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- nitrous ether — ethyl nitrite.
- no such thing — You can say there is no such thing as something to emphasize that it does not exist or is not possible.
- non-aesthetic — relating to the philosophy of aesthetics; concerned with notions such as the beautiful and the ugly.
- non-christian — (of a person, country, etc) not adhering to the Christian faith
- non-sophistic — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- nonchauvinist — a person who is not a chauvinist
- nonexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- nonhistorical — Not based on or drawn from history.
- nonhysterical — not hysterical or funny
- north ossetia — an autonomous republic in S European Russia, in the N Caucasus. 3100 sq. mi. (8029 sq. km) Capital: Vladikavkaz.
- north sea oil — oil extracted from deposits beneath the North Sea
- northerliness — The quality of being northerly.
- nothingnesses — Plural form of nothingness.
- odontornithes — a proposed class of birds that possess teeth
- on the inside — in a position allowing access to secret information, special advantage or favor, etc.
- on the parish — receiving parochial relief
- on-off switch — electrical or electronic device: control knob
- onychophagist — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
- opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
- orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
- orchestration — (uncountable) the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
- organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
- ornithischian — any herbivorous dinosaur of the order Ornithischia, having a pelvis resembling that of a bird. Compare saurischian.
- ornithologist — the branch of zoology that deals with birds.
- orthodontists — Plural form of orthodontist.
- orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.