11-letter words containing e, u, r, a
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- guinea corn — durra.
- guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gutter ball — a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.
- gutturalize — to speak or pronounce (something) in a guttural manner.
- hair-curler — a cylindrical device, usually electronic and heated, used to curl the hair
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-hunter — a watch with a hinged lid in which a small circular opening or crystal allows the approximate time to be read
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard rubber — rubber vulcanized with a large amount of sulfur, usually 25–35 percent, to render it stiff and comparatively inflexible.
- hardecanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- hardmouthed — of or relating to a horse not sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
- harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- harquebuses — Plural form of harquebus.
- harrumphers — Plural form of harrumpher.
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- haute-loire — a department in central France. 1931 sq. mi. (5000 sq. km). Capital: Le Puy.
- haute-marne — a department in E France. 2416 sq. mi. (6255 sq. km). Capital: Chaumont.
- head injury — wound to the head
- head-hunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
- headquarter — to situate in headquarters.
- heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- heater plug — one of usually four plugs fitted to the cylinder block of a diesel engine that warms the engine chamber to facilitate starting in cold weather
- heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heptangular — having seven angles.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
- hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
- hohe tauern — an Alpine mountain range in S Austria. Highest peak, Grossglockner, 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- 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.