11-letter words containing c, h, o, r, u, s
- hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
- 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.
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
- ichthyosaur — any fishlike marine reptile of the extinct order Ichthyosauria, ranging from 4 to 40 feet (1.2 to 12 meters) in length and having a round, tapering body, a large head, four paddlelike flippers, and a vertical caudal fin.
- isochronous — isochronal.
- lecherously — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- musk orchid — a small Eurasian orchid, Herminium monorchis, with dense spikes of musk-scented greenish-yellow flowers
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
- oxyrhynchus — a fish found in the Nile, sometimes depicted on Egyptian sculptures and coins
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rock thrush — any of several Old World thrushes of the genus Monticola, usually having bluish plumage, especially M. saxatilis, of Europe.
- rough music — (formerly) a loud cacophony created with tin pans, drums, etc, esp as a protest or demonstration of indignation outside someone's house
- sarcophagus — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- so much for — So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject.
- sour cherry — a cherry, Prunus cerasus, characterized by gray bark and the spreading habit of its branches.
- stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
- stretch out — lie down, sprawl
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- superheroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- superschool — a large school
- synchronous — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
- touchscreen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
- tract house — a house forming part of a real-estate development, usually having a plan and appearance common to some or all of the houses in the development.
- treacherous — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- tristichous — arranged in three rows.
- ulotrichous — belonging to a group of people having woolly or crisply curly hair.
- unscholarly — not befitting a scholar or learned person