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11-letter words containing h, e, a, l, r

  • heartlessly — unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
  • 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
  • heel breast — the forward side of the heel, adjoining the shank of a shoe.
  • heir at law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
  • heir-at-law — a person who inherits, or has a right of inheritance in, the real property of one who has died without leaving a valid will.
  • helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
  • heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
  • heliography — The scientific study of the sun.
  • hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • hell-raiser — a person who behaves in a rowdy, riotous manner, especially habitually.
  • hellgramite — The aquatic larval form of the dobsonfly, having a segmented body with legs on each segment, and a head with prominent pincers, prized as fish bait.
  • hemathermal — warm-blooded; homoiothermal.
  • hematocryal — cold-blooded; poikilothermal.
  • hemeralopia — a condition of the eyes in which sight is normal in the night or in a dim light but is abnormally poor or wholly absent in the day or in a bright light.
  • hemeralopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in bright light; day-blind; suffering from hemeralopia.
  • hemicranial — Relating to hemicrania.
  • henry's law — the principle that at a constant temperature the concentration of a gas dissolved in a fluid with which it does not combine chemically is almost directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas at the surface of the fluid.
  • heptangular — having seven angles.
  • heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
  • heraclitean — of or relating to Heraclitus or his philosophy.
  • herald moth — a noctuid moth, Scoliopteryx libatrix, having brownish cryptically mottled forewings and plain dull hind wings. The adult hibernates and has a prolonged life
  • 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.
  • hereditable — heritable.
  • heretically — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
  • heterolayer — Any of a series of thin layers of different materials in a semiconductor (or similar) device.
  • heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
  • heteropolar — polar (def 4).
  • heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
  • hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
  • hierarchial — Alternative form of hierarchical.
  • hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
  • highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
  • hilary term — the spring term at Oxford University, the Inns of Court, and some other educational establishments
  • hill farmer — a farmer on a hill farm
  • hill walker — a person who takes part in hill walking
  • hinderlands — the buttocks
  • hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
  • hiv-related — related to the HIV virus
  • hog cholera — an acute, usually fatal, highly contagious disease of swine caused by an RNA virus of the genus Pestivirus, characterized by high fever, lack of appetite, diarrhea, and lethargy.
  • holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
  • holographed — to make by the use of holography.
  • holographer — One who creates holograms.
  • holophrases — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
  • holy father — a title of the pope.
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • homothermal — homoiothermal.
  • 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.
  • horned lark — a lark, Eremophila alpestris, of the Northern Hemisphere, having a tuft of feathers on each side of the crown of the head.
  • horripilate — to produce horripilation on.
  • horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
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