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11-letter words containing h, e, l, n

  • hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
  • hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
  • highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
  • hinderingly — in a hindering manner, so as to hinder or obstruct
  • hinderlands — the buttocks
  • hinderlings — the buttocks or bottom
  • hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
  • hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
  • hla antigen — an antigen of the HLA group, designated by a letter (HLA-A, HLA-B, etc.) according to the chromosome locus on which the controlling HLA gene appears and additionally by a number (HLA-A1, HLA-A2, etc.) according to the order of discovery and identification.
  • hodgenville — a town in central Kentucky: birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
  • hohenlinden — a village in S Germany, in Bavaria, near Munich: French victory over the Austrians 1800.
  • hold in fee — to own; possess
  • holding-pen — a tank for the temporary storage of a substance.
  • hole in one — ace (def 8a).
  • hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
  • holobenthic — (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths
  • holoenzymes — an enzyme complete in both its apoenzyme and coenzyme components.
  • home-loving — fond of one's home
  • homolignane — (organic chemistry) Any compound derived from a lignane by adding extra carbon atoms in a ring or sidechain.
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • honey plant — any of various plants that are particularly useful in providing bees with nectar
  • 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.
  • horizonless — lacking or without a horizon.
  • hormonelike — Resembling a hormone or some aspect of one.
  • 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.
  • horn silver — cerargyrite.
  • hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
  • horned lark — a lark, Eremophila alpestris, of the Northern Hemisphere, having a tuft of feathers on each side of the crown of the head.
  • hornswoggle — to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.
  • hot-selling — (of a good or product) that sells in large numbers
  • hotel chain — a group of hotels which belong to the same company or owner, or are associated in some way
  • 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.
  • house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
  • houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
  • houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
  • hsinhailien — Xinhailian.
  • hudson seal — muskrat fur that has been plucked and dyed to give the appearance of seal.
  • hundredfold — a hundred times as great or as much.
  • hurtfulness — The property of being hurtful.
  • husbandable — Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
  • husbandless — Without a husband.
  • husbandlike — resembling a husband
  • hyalomelane — a type of basaltic glass
  • hydralazine — a white crystalline powder, C 8 H 8 N 4 , that dilates blood vessels and is used in the treatment of hypertension.
  • hydroplaned — Simple past tense and past participle of hydroplane.
  • hydroplaner — a person who pilots a hydroplane, especially a professional speedboat racer.
  • hydroplanes — Plural form of hydroplane.
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