11-letter words containing h, a, n, o
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haute-saone — a department in E France. 2075 sq. mi. (5375 sq. km). Capital: Vesoul.
- have a moan — If you have a moan, you complain about something.
- have gotten — to have obtained
- header bond — a brickwork bond composed entirely of overlapping headers.
- heading dog — a dog that heads off a flock of sheep or a single sheep
- hearing dog — a dog that has been trained to alert a hearing-impaired person to sounds, as a telephone ringing or dangerous noises.
- heartbroken — crushed with sorrow or grief.
- hearthstone — a stone forming a hearth.
- heaven-born — of or as of heavenly origin: the heaven-born gods.
- heavy going — a soft and muddy surface to race on
- hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
- hegemonical — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- hematoxylin — a colorless or pale-yellow, crystalline compound, C 16 H 14 O 6 ·3H 2 O, the coloring material of logwood: used as a mordant dye and as an indicator.
- hemianopsia — any of several conditions in which there is blindness in half of the visual field, involving one or both eyes.
- hemianoptic — suffering from hemiopia, blind in half the field of vision
- hemodynamic — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- henry fonda — Henry, 1905–82, U.S. actor.
- hepatotoxin — Any substance that causes hepatotoxicity.
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- heptahedron — a solid figure having seven faces.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heptathlons — Plural form of heptathlon.
- hercegovina — Herzegovina.
- hereinabove — before in this document, statement, etc.
- heroization — to make a hero of: a war film that heroizes the warrior.
- herzegovina — a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary 1878–1914; now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- hesitations — Plural form of hesitation.
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- hexagonally — In a hexagonal manner.
- hexahedrons — Plural form of hexahedron.
- hexahemeron — hexaemeron.
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- hierodeacon — a monk who is also a deacon.
- hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
- high season — period of greatest activity
- high-octane — noting a gasoline with a relatively high octane number, characterized by high efficiency and freedom from knock.
- hindoostani — a standard language and lingua franca of northern India based on a dialect of Western Hindi spoken around Delhi. Abbreviation: Hind. Compare Hindi (def 2), Urdu.
- hohe tauern — an Alpine mountain range in S Austria. Highest peak, Grossglockner, 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- holman hunt — (James Henry) Leigh [lee] /li/ (Show IPA), 1784–1859, English essayist, poet, and editor.
- holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
- holy island — Also called Lindisfarne. an island off the E coast of Northumberland, England. 3 miles (4.8 km) long.
- home baking — such things as bread, cakes and biscuits that are baked at home
- homeodomain — (biochemistry, genetics) A folded protein domain that binds to DNA and has a function in transcription.
- homogenated — Homogenized.