11-letter words containing s, i, g, h, o
- mythologise — to classify, explain, or write about myths.
- mythologist — an expert in mythology.
- 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.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- nothingness — the state of being nothing.
- old english — Also called Anglo-Saxon. the English language of a.d. c450–c1150. Abbreviation: OE.
- oligarchies — Plural form of oligarchy.
- openinsight — (programming, database) The workflow-enabled Windows 95/Windows NT version of Advanced Revelation, featuring native support for Lotus Notes, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and ODBC. OpenInsight is available from Revelation Software.
- ophiologist — the branch of herpetology dealing with snakes.
- orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
- ostrich egg — the large egg produced by a fast-running flightless African bird, Struthio camelus, that is the largest living bird, with stout two-toed feet and dark feathers, except on the naked head, neck, and legs: order Struthioniformes
- out-a-sight — out-of-sight.
- overfishing — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- pathologist — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
- philologist — the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
- phonologist — a specialist in phonology.
- phycologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- physiognomy — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- physiologic — of or relating to physiology.
- physiologus — an ancient Greek book containing stories and tales with moral content about real and mythical animals
- potshotting — the act of taking potshots
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- psychogenic — having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process: a psychogenic disorder.
- psychologic — of or relating to psychology.
- righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
- schizogenic — reproducing or formed by fission.
- schizogonic — relating to schizogony
- schoolgoing — the act of going to school
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- schrodinger — Erwin [er-vin] /ˈɛr vɪn/ (Show IPA), 1887–1961, German physicist: Nobel prize 1933.
- scorchingly — in a scorching manner
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- shergottite — a type of igneous rock or meteorite thought to originate on Mars
- sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
- shigellosis — an acute intestinal infection caused by a bacterium of the genus Shigella, especially S. dysenteriae, common among children and characterized by fever, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
- shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- shopkeeping — a retail merchant or tradesman; a person who owns or operates a small store or shop.
- shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- short sight — myopia
- shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
- shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
- showing-off — behaviour designed to impress people
- showjumping — horseriding event
- showrooming — the practice of looking at an item of merchandise in a shop, often using a smartphone app to compare its price elsewhere, before buying it from an online distributor
- sialography — radiography of salivary glands once they have been injected with a contrast medium