11-letter words containing c, e, l, r
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- great-uncle — a granduncle.
- greenlandic — a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.
- griddlecake — a thin cake of batter cooked on a griddle; pancake.
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- gun culture — the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used
- hair-curler — a cylindrical device, usually electronic and heated, used to curl the hair
- half-circle — one half of a circle
- hammercloth — a cloth covering for the driver's seat on a horse-drawn carriage.
- hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
- hazel crest — a town in NE Illinois.
- head collar — the part of a bridle that fits round a horse's head
- health card — an identity card required to obtain public health insurance services
- health care — the field concerned with the maintenance or restoration of the health of the body or mind.
- heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
- hectoliters — Plural form of hectoliter.
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
- helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
- helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
- heliculture — the science or occupation of raising snails for food.
- heliochrome — a photograph that reproduces the natural colours of the subject
- heliochromy — the process and practice of producing a photograph that reproduces the natural colours of the subject
- heliometric — Of or relating to the heliometer, or to heliometry.
- heliotropic — turning or growing toward the light.
- helispheric — spiral
- hematocryal — cold-blooded; poikilothermal.
- hemeralopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in bright light; day-blind; suffering from hemeralopia.
- hemicranial — Relating to hemicrania.
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- heraclitean — of or relating to Heraclitus or his philosophy.
- 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.
- heretically — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- heteroclite — irregular or abnormal; anomalous.
- heterocycle — (organic chemistry) A heterocyclic compound or ring.
- heterolytic — Of or pertaining to heterolysis.
- heterotelic — (of an entity or event) having the purpose of its existence or occurrence outside of or apart from itself.
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hierarchial — Alternative form of hierarchical.
- hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
- hog cholera — an acute, usually fatal, highly contagious disease of swine caused by an RNA virus of the genus Pestivirus, characterized by high fever, lack of appetite, diarrhea, and lethargy.
- holy clover — sainfoin.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- 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.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- horse block — a step or block of stone, wood, etc., for getting on or off a horse or in or out of a vehicle.
- hour circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the celestial poles and containing a point on the celestial sphere, as a star or the vernal equinox.
- huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.