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11-letter words containing c, s, r

  • hoary cress — a perennial Mediterranean plant, Cardaria (or Lepidium) draba, with small white flowers: a widespread troublesome weed: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • home screen — television.
  • homestretch — the straight part of a racetrack from the last turn to the finish line. Compare backstretch.
  • 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.
  • hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
  • hucksteress — a female huckster
  • huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
  • hucksterish — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
  • hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
  • hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
  • 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.
  • hyperacusis — (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds.
  • hypercasual — Extremely casual.
  • hypermnesic — the condition of having an unusually vivid or precise memory.
  • hyperplasic — Relating to hyperplasia.
  • hyperscript — Informix. The object-based programming language for Wingz, used for creating charts, graphs, graphics, and customised data entry.
  • hyperstatic — redundant (def 5b).
  • hyperstrict — A function which is hyperstrict in some argument will fully evaluate that argument. To fully evaluate an object, evaluate it to WHNF and if it is a constructed data object (e.g. a list or tuple) then fully evaluate every component and so on recursively. Thus a hyperstrict function will fail to terminate if its argument or any component or sub-component of its argument fails to terminate (i.e. if its argument is not "total").
  • 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.
  • icarian sea — the part of the Aegean Sea between Turkey and the Greek islands of Patmos and Leros.
  • ice flowers — formations of ice crystals on the surface of a still, slowly freezing body of water.
  • ice-scoured — noting an area having surface features resulting from scouring by an advancing ice sheet during glaciation.
  • icebreakers — Plural form of icebreaker.
  • 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.
  • icing sugar — Icing sugar is very fine white sugar that is used for making icing and sweets.
  • icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
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