11-letter words containing c, h, e, s
- heteroecism — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heteroptics — incorrect or perverted perception of what is seen; hallucinatory vision.
- 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
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
- hexastichal — of or pertaining to a hexastich
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
- hicky-horse — a seesaw.
- hierarchies — any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
- hierarchise — to arrange in a hierarchy.
- hierarchism — hierarchical principles, rule, or influence.
- hierarchist — hierarchical principles, rule, or influence.
- high places — (in ancient Semitic religions) a place of worship, usually a temple or altar on a hilltop.
- hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
- hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
- hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
- hispanicize — to make Spanish or Latin American, as in character, custom, or style.
- histiocytes — Plural form of histiocyte.
- historicise — to interpret something as a product of historical development.
- historicize — to interpret something as a product of historical development.
- hitchhikers — Plural form of hitchhiker.
- hoary cress — a perennial Mediterranean plant, Cardaria (or Lepidium) draba, with small white flowers: a widespread troublesome weed: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- home screen — television.
- home-school — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
- homecomings — Plural form of homecoming.
- 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.
- homeschools — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of homeschool.
- homestretch — the straight part of a racetrack from the last turn to the finish line. Compare backstretch.
- honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- hopscotched — Simple past tense and past participle of hopscotch.
- 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.
- horse block — a step or block of stone, wood, etc., for getting on or off a horse or in or out of a vehicle.
- horse conch — a marine gastropod, Pleuroploca gigantea, having a yellowish, spired shell that grows to a length of 2 feet (0.6 meters).
- horse-coper — coper.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- hot cockles — a children's game in which a blindfolded player is hit by one of the other players and then tries to guess which one did the hitting.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- house music — an up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul-music singing, sometimes with elements of rap music.
- house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
- hpcode-plus — A descendant of HPcode with data types, developed to be an ANDF language.
- hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
- hucksteress — a female huckster
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hucksterish — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.