11-letter words containing a, e, r, o, t, h
- game theory — a mathematical theory that deals with strategies for maximizing gains and minimizing losses within prescribed constraints, as the rules of a card game: widely applied in the solution of various decision-making problems, as those of military strategy and business policy.
- gametophore — a part or structure bearing gametangia.
- gate theory — a theory proposing that neural stimulation beyond a certain threshold level, as by application of an electric current, can overwhelm the ability of the nerve center to sense pain.
- go to earth — to go into hiding
- goddaughter — a female godchild.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- goodhearted — Kind, generous and altruistic.
- grandmother — the mother of one's father or mother.
- grangemouth — a port in Scotland, in Falkirk council area: now Scotland's second port, with oil refineries, shipyards, and chemical industries. Pop: 17 771 (2001)
- growth area — a geographic or economic area in which there is noticeable growth
- growth rate — increase per unit
- haematocrit — Alternative spelling of hematocrit.
- haemothorax — Alternative form of hemothorax.
- hair stroke — a fine line in writing or printing.
- halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
- hall porter — concierge
- hammercloth — a cloth covering for the driver's seat on a horse-drawn carriage.
- hammerstone — an ancient stone tool used as a hammer, as for chipping flint, processing food, or breaking up bones.
- hard sector — (storage) An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
- hard-coated — having a coarsely textured coat, as a dog.
- hardmouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- hare's-foot — a leguminous annual plant, Trifolium arvense, that grows on sandy soils in Europe and NW Asia and has downy heads of white or pink flowers
- hatemongers — Plural form of hatemonger.
- haute-loire — a department in central France. 1931 sq. mi. (5000 sq. km). Capital: Le Puy.
- head doctor — chief medical officer
- heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
- heart-throb — a rapid beat or pulsation of the heart.
- heart-whole — not in love.
- heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.
- hearthstone — a stone forming a hearth.
- heartthrobs — Plural form of heartthrob.
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- heat stroke — a disturbance of the temperature-regulating mechanisms of the body caused by overexposure to excessive heat, resulting in fever, hot and dry skin, and rapid pulse, sometimes progressing to delirium and coma.
- hematocryal — cold-blooded; poikilothermal.
- hemotherapy — therapy by means of blood, serum, or plasma transfusion.
- heptahedron — a solid figure having seven faces.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- herald moth — a noctuid moth, Scoliopteryx libatrix, having brownish cryptically mottled forewings and plain dull hind wings. The adult hibernates and has a prolonged life
- heroization — to make a hero of: a war film that heroizes the warrior.
- heteroatoms — Plural form of heteroatom.
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- heterocarpy — the production of more than one kind of fruit in one plant.
- heterograft — xenograft.
- heterolayer — Any of a series of thin layers of different materials in a semiconductor (or similar) device.
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- heteropolar — polar (def 4).
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- heterotaxia — abnormal or irregular arrangement, as of parts of the body, geological strata, etc.
- heterotaxic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterotaxis.