11-letter words containing a, s, e, o
- hemorrhages — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hemorrhage.
- hemostatics — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- hepatocytes — Plural form of hepatocyte.
- hepatoscopy — medical examination of the liver.
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heptathlons — Plural form of heptathlon.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- hesitations — Plural form of hesitation.
- heteroatoms — Plural form of heteroatom.
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- 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
- heterotaxis — abnormal or irregular arrangement, as of parts of the body, geological strata, etc.
- hexahedrons — Plural form of hexahedron.
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
- high season — period of greatest activity
- hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
- historiated — (especially of initial letters on an illuminated manuscript) decorated with animals, flowers, or other designs that have a narrative or symbolic purpose.
- hoary cress — a perennial Mediterranean plant, Cardaria (or Lepidium) draba, with small white flowers: a widespread troublesome weed: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- holophrases — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- home waters — territorial waters
- homeoplasia — the formation, as in healing, of new tissue that is similar to the existing tissue.
- homeostases — Plural form of homeostasis.
- homeostasis — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- homeostatic — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- homesteaded — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- homesteader — the owner or holder of a homestead.
- homo-sexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- homogenates — Plural form of homogenate.
- homopterans — Plural form of homopteran.
- homosexuals — Plural form of homosexual.
- honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
- honeyeaters — Plural form of honeyeater.
- hooded seal — a large seal, Cystophora cristata, the male of which has a large, distensible, hoodlike sac on the head.
- hooke's law — the law stating that the stress on a solid substance is directly proportional to the strain produced, provided the stress is less than the elastic limit of the substance.
- hoppergrass — grasshopper (def 1).
- 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.
- horn-spread — (of a horned creature) the distance between the outermost tips of the horns.
- horse brass — a brass ornament, originally intended for the harness of a horse.
- horse guard — a black and yellow sand wasp, Bembix carolina, of the southern U.S., preying on flies that gather around horses and cattle.
- horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- horse opera — a television or radio program or motion picture about the Wild West, often presented serially and usually dealing with adventures of cowboys, gunmen, gold prospectors, etc. Compare Western (def 8).
- horse's ass — a stupid or foolish person.
- horse-drawn — A horse-drawn carriage, cart, or other vehicle is one that is pulled by one or more horses.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- horse-trade — to bargain or trade shrewdly.