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11-letter words containing e, u, l, o

  • golden hour — the first hour after a serious accident, when it is crucial that the victim receives medical treatment in order to have a chance of surviving
  • golden rule — a rule of ethical conduct, usually phrased “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” or, as in the Sermon on the Mount, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Matt. 7:12; Luke 6:31.
  • golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
  • grammalogue — a word symbolized by a sign or letter.
  • granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
  • great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
  • grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
  • ground rule — Usually, ground rules. basic or governing principles of conduct in any situation or field of endeavor: the ground rules of press conferences.
  • groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
  • groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
  • guelderrose — snowball (sense 2)
  • guerrillero — a guerrilla
  • guillotined — Simple past tense and past participle of guillotine.
  • guillotines — Plural form of guillotine.
  • guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
  • gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
  • haemolutein — (obsolete) bilirubin.
  • harbourless — Without a harbour.
  • hasta luego — so long; (I'll) see you soon
  • haute ecole — a series of intricate steps, gaits, etc., taught to an exhibition horse.
  • haute-loire — a department in central France. 1931 sq. mi. (5000 sq. km). Capital: Le Puy.
  • hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • helminthous — having intestinal worms
  • helmut kohl — Helmut [hel-moo t] /ˈhɛl mʊt/ (Show IPA), born 1930, German political leader: chancellor of West Germany (1982–90); chancellor of Germany 1990–98.
  • hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
  • hexyl group — any of five univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 6 H 13 −.
  • homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
  • homo-sexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • homosexuals — Plural form of homosexual.
  • 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
  • honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
  • hopefulness — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
  • 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 laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
  • horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
  • hot flushes — a sudden unpleasant hot feeling in the skin, caused by endocrine imbalance, esp experienced by women at menopause
  • houppelande — (in the Middle Ages) a robe or long tunic, belted or with a fitted bodice, usually having full trailing sleeves and often trimmed or lined with fur.
  • hour circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the celestial poles and containing a point on the celestial sphere, as a star or the vernal equinox.
  • hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
  • 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 style — a set of rules concerning spellings, typography, etc, observed by editorial and printing staff in a particular publishing or printing company
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
  • householder — a person who holds title to or occupies a house.
  • householdry — (archaic) The management and upkeep of a household.
  • houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
  • houselights — (plural only) The lights that illuminate the audience section of an auditorium or theatre.
  • houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
  • housewifely — of, like, or befitting a housewife.
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