11-letter words containing a, i, r, o
- histography — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- historiated — (especially of initial letters on an illuminated manuscript) decorated with animals, flowers, or other designs that have a narrative or symbolic purpose.
- hod carrier — a mason's assistant whose work is to carry hods of materials to the mason.
- holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
- holographic — Also, holographic [hol-uh-graf-ik, hoh-luh-] /ˌhɒl əˈgræf ɪk, ˌhoʊ lə-/ (Show IPA), holographical. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
- holophrasis — the expression of the ideas of a phrase or sentence in one word; polysynthesis: a language characterized by holophrasis.
- holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
- homographic — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- honorifical — honorific
- honourarium — Nonstandard spelling of honorarium.
- horizontals — Plural form of horizontal.
- horripilant — causing horripilation, ie goose flesh, or the flesh to creep
- horripilate — to produce horripilation on.
- horrisonant — Having an unpleasant sound.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- horseradish — a cultivated plant, Armoracia rusticana, of the mustard family, having small, white flowers.
- hospitaller — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- house-train — to housebreak.
- hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
- hydnocarpic — of or relating to hydnocarpic acid
- hydrocyanic — of or derived from hydrocyanic acid.
- hydronation — (chemistry) The formation of a complex with hydrogen.
- hydropathic — Relating to hydropathy.
- hydrophobia — rabies.
- hydrostatic — of or relating to hydrostatics.
- hypercholia — abnormally large secretion of bile.
- hyperdorian — of or related to the mode above the Dorian mode in ancient Greek music
- hyperorexia — compulsive overeating
- hyperovaria — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
- hyperoxemia — abnormal acidity of the blood.
- hypersomnia — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hypocaloric — That is low in dietary calories.
- hypochromia — an anemic condition due to a deficiency of hemoglobin in the red blood cells.
- hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
- hypogravity — The presence of an apparently decreased gravitational field (such as in an aircraft following a parabolic path).
- hypoid gear — a gear resembling a bevel gear in form but designed to mesh with a similar gear in such a way that their axes would not intersect, one axis crossing over the other at approximately a right angle.
- hypothermia — Pathology. subnormal body temperature.
- i formation — an offensive alignment in which the backs are positioned in line directly behind the quarterback.
- ibn gabirol — Arabic name of Avicebrón.
- ibn-gabirol — Solomon. ?1021–?58, Jewish philosopher and poet, born in Spain. His work The Fountain of Life influenced Western medieval philosophers
- ibritumomab — A monoclonal antibody which is linked with yttrium-90 as the drug ibritumomab tiuxetan.
- ichnography — the art of drawing a ground plan or layout of a building.
- ichthyosaur — any fishlike marine reptile of the extinct order Ichthyosauria, ranging from 4 to 40 feet (1.2 to 12 meters) in length and having a round, tapering body, a large head, four paddlelike flippers, and a vertical caudal fin.
- iconography — symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- icosandrian — (of a plant) having at least twenty stamens
- icosandrous — belonging to the Icosandria, a class of plants
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).