11-letter words containing c, h, e, r, n
- heterogonic — exhibiting allometry
- 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
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
- hibernicize — to make Irish in character.
- hierodeacon — a monk who is also a deacon.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- home center — a large store that specializes in a wide range of materials and supplies for home improvements or repairs.
- home screen — television.
- homocentric — having a common center; concentric.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- 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 conch — a marine gastropod, Pleuroploca gigantea, having a yellowish, spired shell that grows to a length of 2 feet (0.6 meters).
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hydrocodone — an opioid analgesic, C 18 H 21 NO 3 , used to treat moderate to severe pain.
- hydromancer — One who practices hydromancy.
- hypercapnia — Excessive carbon dioxide in the bloodstream, typically caused by inadequate respiration.
- hyperinotic — of or suffering from hyperinosis
- hypermnesic — the condition of having an unusually vivid or precise memory.
- hypocenters — Plural form of hypocenter.
- hypocentral — (geology) Of or pertaining to the hypocentre of an earthquake.
- hypocretins — Plural form of hypocretin.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
- in chancery — (of a suit) pending in a court of equity
- incoherence — the quality or state of being incoherent.
- incoherency — incoherence.
- inherencies — inherence.
- inheritance — something that is or may be inherited; property passing at the owner's death to the heir or those entitled to succeed; legacy.
- inner child — Some psychologists refer to a person's childish feelings as his or her inner child.
- interbranch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- interchange — to put each in the place of the other: to interchange pieces of modular furniture.
- interchurch — interdenominational.
- interethnic — pertaining to or characteristic of a people, especially a group (ethnic group) sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.
- interschool — Occurring or taking place between two or more schools.
- intrathecal — Anatomy. situated within the thecal sac: covering the spinal cord.
- intrenchant — not able to be cut
- ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
- ionospheric — Of or pertaining to the ionosphere.
- isochronize — to make isochronal.
- java trench — a trench in the Indian Ocean, S of Java: deepest known part of Indian Ocean. 25,344 feet (7725 meters) deep.
- kinetochore — Biology. the place on either side of the centromere to which the spindle fibers are attached during cell division.
- kitchenware — cooking equipment or utensils.
- lancet arch — an arch having a head that is acutely pointed.
- leatherneck — a U.S. marine.