11-letter words containing c, r, e, n
- graphicness — The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.
- great-niece — a daughter of one's nephew or niece; grandniece.
- great-uncle — a granduncle.
- greco-roman — of or having both Greek and Roman characteristics: the Greco-Roman influence.
- greengrocer — a retailer of fresh vegetables and fruit.
- greenlandic — a dialect of Inuit, spoken in Greenland.
- greenockite — a yellow mineral, cadmium sulfide, CdS, associated with zinc ores and used as a source of cadmium.
- greenschist — schist colored green by an abundance of chlorite, epidote, or actinolite.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- ground crew — ground personnel responsible for the maintenance and repair of aircraft.
- groundcover — Alternative spelling of ground cover.
- growth cone — a flattened area at the end of a growing axon or dendrite, having radiating filopodia and lemellopodia that function as guides for the outgrowth of embryonic nerve fibers.
- guinea corn — durra.
- gun culture — the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used
- gynecocracy — gynarchy.
- gynocentric — Centered on or concerned exclusively with women; taking a female (or specifically a feminist) point of view.
- handcrafted — handicraft.
- handcrafter — One who handcrafts or engages in handcraft or handicraft.
- handicapper — Horse Racing. a racetrack official or employee who assigns the weight a horse must carry in a race. a person employed, as by a newspaper, to make predictions on the outcomes of horse races.
- hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- harken back — hearken back (see phrase under hearken)
- heartaching — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- hebephrenic — Pertaining to, or characteristic of, hebephrenia.
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- hemicranial — Relating to hemicrania.
- henchperson — a loyal supporter, follower, or subordinate
- heraclitean — of or relating to Heraclitus or his philosophy.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- hermeneutic — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heroin chic — the perceived glamorization of heroin and the characteristics associated with heroin addicts, such as gauntness and hollow eyes
- heterogenic — of, relating to, or characterized by heterogenesis.
- 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.