11-letter words containing h, i, l, e, r
- hang-glider — a kitelike glider consisting of a V -shaped wing underneath which the pilot is strapped: kept aloft by updrafts and guided by the pilot's shifting body weight.
- hard-boiled — Cookery. (of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
- haute-loire — a department in central France. 1931 sq. mi. (5000 sq. km). Capital: Le Puy.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- health risk — something that could cause harm to people's health
- hectoliters — Plural form of hectoliter.
- hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
- 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.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- helicograph — an instrument for drawing helices.
- helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
- helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
- heliculture — the science or occupation of raising snails for food.
- heliochrome — a photograph that reproduces the natural colours of the subject
- heliochromy — the process and practice of producing a photograph that reproduces the natural colours of the subject
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- heliography — The scientific study of the sun.
- heliometers — Plural form of heliometer.
- heliometric — Of or relating to the heliometer, or to heliometry.
- heliosphere — the region around the sun over which the effect of the solar wind extends.
- heliotropes — Plural form of heliotrope.
- heliotropic — turning or growing toward the light.
- heliotropin — piperonal.
- helispheric — spiral
- hell-raiser — a person who behaves in a rowdy, riotous manner, especially habitually.
- helleborein — a yellow, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, C 37 H 56 O 18 , obtained from the rhizome and root of certain hellebores, and used in medicine chiefly as a heart stimulant.
- helleborine — A mainly woodland orchid occurring chiefly in north temperate regions.
- 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.
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- 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.
- hemielytron — hemelytron.
- 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.
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- hereditable — heritable.
- hereinbelow — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
- heresiology — the study of heresies.
- heretically — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- heteroclite — irregular or abnormal; anomalous.
- heterolysis — The dissolution of cells by lysins or enzymes from different species.
- heterolytic — Of or pertaining to heterolysis.
- heterophile — Able to react immunologically with material from another species.
- heteroploid — (biology) Having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number normal in the species.
- heterotelic — (of an entity or event) having the purpose of its existence or occurrence outside of or apart from itself.
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.