11-letter words containing t, h, e, n, o

northlander — the land or region in the north.
northwester — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northwest.
not hear of — to forbid or refuse to consider
nothingness — the state of being nothing.
nototherium — an extinct Pleistocene rhinoceros-sized marsupial of the genus Nototherium, related to the wombats
nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
novelettish — Resembling or characteristic of a novelette.
null method — a method of measurement using an electrical device, as a Wheatstone bridge, in which the quantity to be measured is balanced by an opposing known quantity that is varied until the resultant of the two is zero.
nympholepts — Plural form of nympholept.
octahedrons — Plural form of octahedron.
odontophore — a structure in the mouth of most mollusks over which the radula is drawn backward and forward in the process of breaking up food.
oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
omnitheists — Plural form of omnitheist.
on the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
on the beam — any of various relatively long pieces of metal, wood, stone, etc., manufactured or shaped especially for use as rigid members or parts of structures or machines.
on the beat — A police officer on the beat is on duty, walking around the area for which he or she is responsible.
on the bias — A dress or skirt that is cut on the bias or that is bias-cut has been cut diagonally across the material so that it hangs down in a particular way.
on the case — If you say that someone is on the case, you mean that they are aware of a particular problem and are trying to resolve it.
on the club — away from work due to sickness, esp when receiving sickness benefit
on the coat — in disfavour
on the cuff — a fold or band serving as a trimming or finish for the bottom of a sleeve.
on the cusp — If you say that someone or something is on the cusp, you mean they are between two states, or are about to be in a particular state.
on the dole — Someone who is on the dole is registered as unemployed and receives money from the government.
on the edge — at the rim
on the flat — On the flat means on level ground.
on the game — If a man or woman is on the game, he or she is working as a prostitute.
on the hoof — (of livestock) alive
on the hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
on the hour — If something happens on the hour, it happens every hour at, for example, nine o'clock, ten o'clock, and so on, and not at any number of minutes past an hour.
on the jump — in a hurry
on the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
on the make — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
on the mend — to make (something broken, worn, torn, or otherwise damaged) whole, sound, or usable by repairing: to mend old clothes; to mend a broken toy.
on the move — to pass from one place or position to another.
on the nail — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
on the nose — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
on the outs — on unfriendly terms
on the piss — drinking alcohol, esp in large quantities
on the q.t. — secretly
on the rack — If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
on the road — a novel (1957) by Jack Kerouac.
on the side — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
on the spin — one after another
on the spot — Radio, Television. pertaining to the point of origin of a local broadcast. broadcast between announced programs.
on the take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
on the town — a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government.
on the trot — If something happens several times on the trot, it happens that number of times without a break.
on the turn — at the point of change
on the wane — If something is on the wane, it is becoming weaker or less.
on the wind — as near as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

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