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11-letter words containing e, t, h, r

  • 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-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.
  • honeyeaters — Plural form of honeyeater.
  • hop trefoil — a leguminous plant, Trifolium campestre, of N temperate grasslands, with globular yellow flower heads and trifoliate leaves
  • horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
  • 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.
  • horripilate — to produce horripilation on.
  • horse-trade — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
  • horsetrader — (literally) A person who buys and sells horses, especially one who makes such transactions in a clever or skillful manner.
  • hospitaller — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
  • host number — (networking)   The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
  • hot jupiter — any of a class of large, hot, gaseous planets similar to Jupiter in mass but outside our solar system.
  • hotelkeeper — a manager or owner of a hotel.
  • house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
  • house-craft — skill in domestic management
  • house-train — to housebreak.
  • houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
  • housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
  • housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
  • housemother — a woman in charge of a residence, especially for children, students, or young women, who acts as hostess, chaperon, and occasionally as housekeeper.
  • 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.
  • housesitter — Alternative spelling of house-sitter.
  • hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
  • http server — (web)   (Or "web server") A server process running at a website which sends out web pages in response to HTTP requests from remote browsers. If one site runs more than one server they must use different port numbers. Alternatively, several hostnames may be mapped to the same computer in which case they are known as "virtual servers".
  • 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.
  • hurdle rate — the rate of return that a proposed project must provide if it is to be worth considering: usually calculated as the cost of the capital involved adjusted by a risk factor
  • hurtfulness — The property of being hurtful.
  • hurtleberry — whortleberry.
  • hybernating — Present participle of hybernate.
  • hybernation — Obsolete spelling of hibernation.
  • hydroborate — (inorganic chemistry) Any of several anions containing hydrogen bound to boron, especially the simplest one BH4-; any salt or complex containing such an anion.
  • hydrogenate — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
  • hydrolysate — any compound formed by hydrolysis.
  • hydrometeor — liquid water or ice in the atmosphere in various forms, as rain, ice crystals, hail, fog, or clouds.
  • hydrometers — Plural form of hydrometer.
  • hydrometric — Concerning or applying hydrometry.
  • hydrophytes — Plural form of hydrophyte.
  • hydroxylate — to introduce hydroxyl into (a compound).
  • hyetography — the study of the annual and geographical distribution of rainfall.
  • hygrometers — Plural form of hygrometer.
  • hygrometric — of or relating to the hygrometer or hygrometry.
  • hygrophytes — Plural form of hygrophyte.
  • hymenoptera — hymenopteran.
  • hyperactive — unusually or abnormally active: a company's hyperactive growth; the child's hyperactive imagination.
  • hyperacuity — an extreme acuteness (of the senses)
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