11-letter words containing e, a, s, o, u
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- homo-sexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- homosexuals — Plural form of homosexual.
- 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.
- horse guard — a black and yellow sand wasp, Bembix carolina, of the southern U.S., preying on flies that gather around horses and cattle.
- horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
- hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
- house agent — a real-estate agent.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- house organ — a periodical issued by a business or other establishment for its employees, customers, and other interested readers, presenting news about the firm, its products, and its personnel.
- house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
- house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
- house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- house snake — any African snake of the genus Boaedon, some species of which are important mouse and rat catchers in areas of human habitation.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- house-train — to housebreak.
- houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
- housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
- housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
- houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
- housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
- houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
- houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
- hudson seal — muskrat fur that has been plucked and dyed to give the appearance of seal.
- hydragogues — Plural form of hydragogue.
- hydromedusa — the medusa form of a hydrozoan.
- ignoramuses — Plural form of ignoramus.
- impostumate — affected by an abscess
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
- insouciance — the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference.
- intravenous — within a vein.
- isoceraunic — representing, having, or indicating equality in the frequency or intensity of thunderstorms: isoceraunic line; isoceraunic map.
- isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
- iteroparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit more than once (usually many times) before dying
- jealoushood — jealousy
- jealousness — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- joshua tree — an evergreen tree, Yucca brevifolia, growing in arid or desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having long, twisted branches.
- joule's law — the principle that the rate of production of heat by a constant direct current is directly proportional to the resistance of the circuit and to the square of the current.
- juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
- keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
- konrad zuse — (person) The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- langoustine — a large prawn, Nephrops norvegicus, used for food.