11-letter words containing s, o, n, g, h
- keogh plans — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- knighthoods — Plural form of knighthood.
- kongur shan — a mountain in China, in W Xinjiang: the highest peak in the Pamirs. Height: 7719 m (25 325 ft)
- konigshutte — German name of Chorzów.
- lithogenous — of or relating to organisms, as coral, that secrete stony deposits.
- longhandles — long underwear.
- longshoring — the work or occupation of a longshoreman.
- longsighted — Alternative spelling of long-sighted.
- megaphonist — Someone who uses a megaphone.
- mesognathic — having medium, slightly protruding jaws.
- methanogens — Plural form of methanogen.
- missolonghi — a town in W Greece, on the Gulf of Patras: Byron died here 1824.
- monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
- moonshining — the practice of illegally making or smuggling distilled spirits
- mushrooming — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- nacogdoches — a city in N Texas.
- 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.
- onslaughter — An onslaught.
- 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.
- orthogenics — the treatment of mentally and emotionally disturbed children
- 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.
- 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).
- phonologist — a specialist in phonology.
- physiognomy — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- potshotting — the act of taking potshots
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prognathous — 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.
- psychotogen — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
- schizogenic — reproducing or formed by fission.
- schizogonic — relating to schizogony
- school song — a song which is particular to a school, and which pupils sing at assembly, or on special occasions
- 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
- shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
- sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
- shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
- shoe-string — a shoelace.
- shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
- 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-range — having a limited extent, as in distance or time: a short-range shot; a short-range plan.