11-letter words containing c, d, r, o
- 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.
- hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
- handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
- 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.
- harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
- harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
- head collar — the part of a bridle that fits round a horse's head
- head doctor — chief medical officer
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- herb doctor — a person who practices healing by the use of herbs.
- hierodeacon — a monk who is also a deacon.
- hippodromic — of or relating to a hippodrome
- hod carrier — a mason's assistant whose work is to carry hods of materials to the mason.
- homodimeric — Of or pertaining to a homodimer.
- hooded crow — a European crow, Corvus corone cornix, having a gray body and black head, wings, and tail.
- hoodie crow — a subspecies of the carrion crow, Corvus corone cornix, that has a grey body and black head, wings, and tail
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- hybrid corn — a crossbred corn, especially the grain of corn developed by hybridization of repeatedly self-pollinated, and therefore genetically pure, varieties.
- hybrid rock — an igneous rock formed by molten magma incorporating pre-existing rock through which it passes
- hydnocarpic — of or relating to hydnocarpic acid
- hydrobromic — of or derived from hydrobromic acid.
- hydrocarbon — any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH 4 , an alkene, ethylene, C 2 H 4 , an alkyne, acetylene, C 2 H 2 , or an aromatic compound, benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- hydrochoric — of or relating to dispersing seeds through water or to a hydrochore
- hydrocodone — an opioid analgesic, C 18 H 21 NO 3 , used to treat moderate to severe pain.
- hydrocorals — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
- hydrocyanic — of or derived from hydrocyanic acid.
- hydromancer — One who practices hydromancy.
- hydrometric — Concerning or applying hydrometry.
- hydropathic — Relating to hydropathy.
- hydrophilic — having a strong affinity for water.
- hydrophobic — of or relating to hydrophobia.
- hydroponics — the cultivation of plants by placing the roots in liquid nutrient solutions rather than in soil; soilless growth of plants. Compare aeroculture, geoponics (def 2).
- hydroscopes — Plural form of hydroscope.
- hydroscopic — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
- hydrostatic — of or relating to hydrostatics.
- hydrotropic — Biology. turning or tending in a particular direction with reference to moisture.
- hypodermics — Plural form of hypodermic.
- ice-scoured — noting an area having surface features resulting from scouring by an advancing ice sheet during glaciation.
- 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
- ideogrammic — Being, or pertaining to, an ideogram.
- ideographic — an ideogram.
- idiocentric — Characterized by or denoting interest centered upon oneself or one's own ways, rather than upon others or the ways of others; self-centered.
- idiographic — pertaining to or involving the study or explication of individual cases or events (opposed to nomothetic).
- idiomorphic — Also, euhedral. (in a rock) noting or pertaining to a mineral constituent having its own characteristic outward crystalline form unaltered by the other constituents of the rock; automorphic.
- inaccordant — Not accordant; discordant.