11-letter words containing c, h, i, r, o
- ground itch — a disease of the skin of the feet, caused by penetration of hookworm larvae, characterized by a blisterlike eruption and itching.
- haematocrit — Alternative spelling of hematocrit.
- hair colour — the colour or shade of someone's hair
- halomorphic — containing or resulting from the presence of neutral salts or alkaline salts or the presence of both
- haptotropic — relating to haptotropism
- 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
- harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
- harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
- 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.
- hectoliters — Plural form of hectoliter.
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
- helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
- helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
- 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.
- hemeralopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in bright light; day-blind; suffering from hemeralopia.
- hemimorphic — (of a crystal) having the two ends of an axis unlike in their planes or modifications; lacking a center of symmetry.
- hemorrhagic — a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding.
- hemotrophic — the material from the maternal bloodstream and placenta that nourishes a mammalian embryo.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- heroic poem — a poem written in an epic style using lines of iambic pentameter.
- heroin chic — the perceived glamorization of heroin and the characteristics associated with heroin addicts, such as gauntness and hollow eyes
- heteroclite — irregular or abnormal; anomalous.
- heteroecism — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heterogenic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.
- heterogonic — exhibiting allometry
- heterolytic — Of or pertaining to heterolysis.
- 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
- heterotaxic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterotaxis.
- heterotelic — (of an entity or event) having the purpose of its existence or occurrence outside of or apart from itself.
- heterotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Heterotricha, having the body covered uniformly with short cilia.
- heterotypic — of or relating to the first or reductional division in meiosis.
- hicky-horse — a seesaw.
- hierodeacon — a monk who is also a deacon.
- hierophobic — a person who suffers from hierophobia
- high colour — (hardware) A colour depth of 16 (or 15) bits per pixel. Compare true colour.
- hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
- hippocratic — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
- hippodromic — of or relating to a hippodrome
- hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
- historicise — to interpret something as a product of historical development.
- historicism — a theory that history is determined by immutable laws and not by human agency.
- historicist — a theory that history is determined by immutable laws and not by human agency.
- historicity — historical authenticity.
- historicize — to interpret something as a product of historical development.
- histrionics — an actor.