11-letter words containing a, n, u, r
- guardswoman — A female guardsman.
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- guinea corn — durra.
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- gurgitation — a surging rise and fall; ebullient motion, as of water.
- guru granth — the sacred scripture of the Sikhs, believed by them to be the embodiment of the gurus
- hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- hacking run — (jargon) (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
- haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
- half-hunter — a watch with a hinged lid in which a small circular opening or crystal allows the approximate time to be read
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- hand around — If you hand around or hand round something such as food, you pass it from one person to another in a group.
- handwrought — formed or shaped by hand, as metal objects.
- hang around — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
- hard ground — an etching ground applied to the surface of a plate held over a small flame and spread by a dabber or brayer. Compare soft ground (def 1).
- hard launch — the general or official launch, esp of a website, after which all features, products, and services are understood to be available
- hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- harnoncourt — Nikolaus. 1929–2016, Austrian conductor and cellist, noted for his performances using period instruments
- harpoon gun — a small cannon for shooting harpoons.
- harrumphing — Present participle of harrumph.
- haute-marne — a department in E France. 2416 sq. mi. (6255 sq. km). Capital: Chaumont.
- head injury — wound to the head
- head-hunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
- hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heptangular — having seven angles.
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hit-and-run — guilty of fleeing the scene of an accident or injury one has caused, especially a vehicular accident, thereby attempting to evade being identified and held responsible: a hit-and-run driver.
- hohe tauern — an Alpine mountain range in S Austria. Highest peak, Grossglockner, 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
- holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- honor guard — guard of honor.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- honourarium — Nonstandard spelling of honorarium.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- house organ — a periodical issued by a business or other establishment for its employees, customers, and other interested readers, presenting news about the firm, its products, and its personnel.
- house-train — to housebreak.
- houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
- houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
- hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
- human error — sb's mistake