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11-letter words containing e, o, h

  • honey plant — any of various plants that are particularly useful in providing bees with nectar
  • honey wagon — a wagon or truck for collecting and carrying excrement or manure.
  • honey-eater — any of numerous oscine birds of the family Meliphagidae, chiefly of Australasia, having a bill and tongue adapted for extracting the nectar from flowers.
  • honey-sweet — sweet as honey.
  • honeycombed — Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.
  • honeyeaters — Plural form of honeyeater.
  • honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
  • honeymooned — Simple past tense and past participle of honeymoon.
  • honeymooner — A person on his/her honeymoon.
  • honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
  • honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
  • hongshui he — a river in SW China, flowing SE to the Xiang Jiang. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
  • hooded crow — a European crow, Corvus corone cornix, having a gray body and black head, wings, and tail.
  • hooded seal — a large seal, Cystophora cristata, the male of which has a large, distensible, hoodlike sac on the head.
  • hoodie crow — a subspecies of the carrion crow, Corvus corone cornix, that has a grey body and black head, wings, and tail
  • hooke's law — the law stating that the stress on a solid substance is directly proportional to the strain produced, provided the stress is less than the elastic limit of the substance.
  • hooverville — a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
  • hop trefoil — a leguminous plant, Trifolium campestre, of N temperate grasslands, with globular yellow flower heads and trifoliate leaves
  • hopefulness — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
  • hoppergrass — grasshopper (def 1).
  • hopscotched — Simple past tense and past participle of hopscotch.
  • horizonless — lacking or without a horizon.
  • hormigueros — a city in W Puerto Rico, S of Mayagüez.
  • hormonelike — Resembling a hormone or some aspect of one.
  • 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.
  • horn silver — cerargyrite.
  • horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
  • horn-rimmed — having the frames or rims made of horn or tortoise shell, or plastic that simulates either of these: horn-rimmed glasses.
  • horn-spread — (of a horned creature) the distance between the outermost tips of the horns.
  • hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
  • horned frog — any of various frogs having a marked protuberance on the head, cheek, or upper eyelid.
  • horned lark — a lark, Eremophila alpestris, of the Northern Hemisphere, having a tuft of feathers on each side of the crown of the head.
  • horned pout — a bullhead, especially the brown bullhead.
  • horned toad — an insectivorous iguanid lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of western North America, having hornlike spines on the head and a flattened body covered with spiny scales.
  • hornswoggle — to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.
  • horographer — a person who reckons time
  • horripilate — to produce horripilation on.
  • 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 brass — a brass ornament, originally intended for the harness of a horse.
  • horse conch — a marine gastropod, Pleuroploca gigantea, having a yellowish, spired shell that grows to a length of 2 feet (0.6 meters).
  • 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.
  • horse opera — a television or radio program or motion picture about the Wild West, often presented serially and usually dealing with adventures of cowboys, gunmen, gold prospectors, etc. Compare Western (def 8).
  • horse rider — a person riding a horse
  • horse sense — common sense.
  • horse's ass — a stupid or foolish person.
  • horse-coper — coper.
  • horse-drawn — A horse-drawn carriage, cart, or other vehicle is one that is pulled by one or more horses.
  • horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
  • horse-trade — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
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