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11-letter words containing c, r, o, s, h

  • 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.
  • horoscopist — One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer.
  • 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.
  • house-craft — skill in domestic management
  • hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
  • humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
  • hydrocorals — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
  • hydroponics — the cultivation of plants by placing the roots in liquid nutrient solutions rather than in soil; soilless growth of plants. Compare aeroculture, geoponics (def 2).
  • hydroscopes — Plural form of hydroscope.
  • hydroscopic — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
  • hydrostatic — of or relating to hydrostatics.
  • hygroscopes — Plural form of hygroscope.
  • hygroscopic — absorbing or attracting moisture from the air.
  • hypocenters — Plural form of hypocenter.
  • hypocorisms — Plural form of hypocorism.
  • hypocretins — Plural form of hypocretin.
  • hypocrinism — an abnormal condition caused by insufficient secretion from a gland, especially an endocrine gland.
  • hypocrisies — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
  • hypodermics — Plural form of hypodermic.
  • hypogastric — of, relating to, or situated in the hypogastrium.
  • hypsometric — Of or relating to the use of the hypsometer; hypsographic.
  • ichthyornis — an extinct genus of toothed birds having vertebrae resembling those of fishes.
  • 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.
  • icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
  • icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
  • interschool — Occurring or taking place between two or more schools.
  • intraschool — Within a single school.
  • ionospheric — Of or pertaining to the ionosphere.
  • ischidrosis — Anhidrosis.
  • isochronism — an isochronal character or action.
  • isochronize — to make isochronal.
  • isochronous — isochronal.
  • isorhythmic — a structural feature characteristic of the Ars Nova motet, consisting of a single rhythmic phrase pattern repeated, usually in the tenor, throughout the composition.
  • lecherously — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
  • lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
  • lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
  • machinators — Plural form of machinator.
  • macrographs — Plural form of macrograph.
  • macrophages — Plural form of macrophage.
  • macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
  • marchioness — marquise (defs 1, 2).
  • matchboards — Plural form of matchboard.
  • mesomorphic — pertaining to or having a muscular or sturdy body build characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic mesoderm (contrasted with ectomorphic, endomorphic).
  • mesonephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.
  • mesospheric — Of or pertaining to the mesosphere.
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