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11-letter words containing c, h, o, l, a

  • half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
  • halo effect — a predisposition to admire all of a person's actions, work, etc., because of an estimable quality or action in the past.
  • halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
  • halomorphic — containing or resulting from the presence of neutral salts or alkaline salts or the presence of both
  • haltom city — a city in N Texas, near Fort Worth.
  • hammercloth — a cloth covering for the driver's seat on a horse-drawn carriage.
  • hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • haute ecole — a series of intricate steps, gaits, etc., taught to an exhibition horse.
  • head collar — the part of a bridle that fits round a horse's head
  • heart block — a defect in the electrical impulses of the heart resulting in any of various arrhythmias or irregularities in the heartbeat.
  • hectopascal — An SI unit of pressure and stress equal to 100 pascals.
  • hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
  • hegemonical — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
  • helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
  • heliostatic — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
  • hematocryal — cold-blooded; poikilothermal.
  • hematologic — Of or relating to hematology.
  • hemeralopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in bright light; day-blind; suffering from hemeralopia.
  • hemophiliac — Also, hemophile. a person having hemophilia.
  • hippocampal — of or relating to the hippocampus.
  • 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.
  • hollow back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
  • hollow-back — a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
  • holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
  • holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
  • holographic — Also, holographic [hol-uh-graf-ik, hoh-luh-] /ˌhɒl əˈgræf ɪk, ˌhoʊ lə-/ (Show IPA), holographical. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
  • homicidally — In a homicidal manner.
  • homiletical — Of or relating to familiar intercourse; social; companionable.
  • homoallylic — (organic chemistry) Containing a homoallyl radical.
  • homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
  • homological — homologous.
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • homoplastic — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
  • homothallic — having all mycelia alike, the opposite sexual functions being performed by different cells of a single mycelium. Compare heterothallic (def 1).
  • homotypical — (biology) homotypal.
  • honorifical — honorific
  • 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.
  • horny coral — a gorgonian.
  • hotel chain — a group of hotels which belong to the same company or owner, or are associated in some way
  • 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
  • huitlacoche — Corn smut prepared as a delicacy.
  • hydrocorals — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
  • hypercholia — abnormally large secretion of bile.
  • hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
  • hypocaloric — That is low in dietary calories.
  • hypocentral — (geology) Of or pertaining to the hypocentre of an earthquake.
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