11-letter words containing c, s, h, e
- half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
- hard cheese — an unpleasant, difficult, or adverse situation: It's hard cheese for the unskilled worker these days.
- hard sector — (storage) An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- hash bucket — hash coding
- hatchetfish — any deep-sea fishes of the genera Argyropelicus, Sternoptyx, and related genera, of tropical and temperate waters, having a silvery, hatchet-shaped body.
- hate speech — speech that attacks, threatens, or insults a person or group on the basis of national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
- hazel crest — a town in NE Illinois.
- head-strict — (theory) A head-strict function will not necessarily evaluate every cons cell of its (list) argument, but whenever it does evaluate a cons cell it will also evaluate the element in the head of that cell. An example of a head-strict function is beforeZero :: [Int] -> [Int] beforeZero [] = [] beforeZero (0:xs) = [] beforeZero (x:xs) = x : beforeZero xs which returns a list up to the first zero. This pattern of evaluation is important because it is common in functions which operate on a list of inputs. See also tail-strict, hyperstrict.
- headcheeses — Plural form of headcheese.
- headscarves — Plural form of headscarf.
- heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
- heat cramps — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- hectoliters — Plural form of hectoliter.
- hectometers — Plural form of hectometer.
- hectopascal — An SI unit of pressure and stress equal to 100 pascals.
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
- helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
- helioscopic — of or relating to observations of the sun
- heliostatic — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- helispheric — spiral
- hellenistic — pertaining to Hellenists.
- helminthics — Plural form of helminthic.
- hemiacetals — Plural form of hemiacetal.
- hemisecting — Present participle of hemisect.
- hemisection — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- hemispheric — of or relating to a hemisphere.
- hemistichal — of or relating to a hemistich
- hemostatics — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- hemstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of hemstitch.
- hemstitches — Plural form of hemstitch.
- henchperson — a loyal supporter, follower, or subordinate
- hepatitis c — a form of hepatitis with clinical effects similar to those of hepatitis B, caused by a blood-borne retrovirus (hepatitis C virus) that may be of the hepatitis non-A, non-B type.
- hepatocytes — Plural form of hepatocyte.
- hepatoscopy — medical examination of the liver.
- heptarchies — Plural form of heptarchy.
- heptarchist — A ruler of one division of a heptarchy.
- heptastichs — Plural form of heptastich.
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- heresiarchs — Plural form of heresiarch.
- heresthetic — a political strategy by which a person or group sets or manipulates the context and structure of a decision-making process in order to win or be more likely to win
- hermeticism — the body of ideas set forth in Hermetic writings.
- hetaerismic — of or relating to courtesans
- hetairismic — relating to hetairism, concubinage