11-letter words containing h, o, a, r, u
- carpophorus — an epithet of both Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, meaning “fruit-bearer.”.
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- chancellour — Archaic form of chancellor.
- changeround — the process of changing position
- chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
- chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
- chateauroux — a town in central France: 10th-century castle (Château-Raoul). Pop: 46 386 (2009)
- chaud-froid — a cooked dish of fowl or game, served cold with aspic, jelly, or a sauce.
- chaulmoogra — a tropical Asian tree, Taraktogenos (or Hydnocarpus) kurzii: family Flacourtiaceae
- chiaroscuro — Chiaroscuro is the use of light and shade in a picture, or the effect produced by light and shade in a place.
- chou pastry — cream puff paste.
- chrome alum — a violet-red crystalline substance, used as a mordant in dyeing. Formula: KCr(SO4)2.12H2O
- churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
- coauthoring — Present participle of coauthor.
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
- couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
- crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
- crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
- creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
- curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- eave trough — gutter (def 3).
- eavestrough — gutter (def 3).
- escarmouche — a skirmish
- euchromatin — the part of a chromosome that constitutes the major genes and does not stain strongly with basic dyes when the cell is not dividing
- euryphagous — eating a wide variety of foods
- fair enough — that is reasonable
- family hour — any broadcast period from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. when programs of general interest to the family are broadcast.
- farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
- four-handed — involving four hands or players, as a game at cards: Bridge is usually a four-handed game.
- fourth wall — the imaginary wall of a box set, separating the actors from the audience.
- fourth-rate — of very low quality, value, or rank
- frame house — a house constructed with a skeleton framework of timber, as the ordinary wooden house.
- goddaughter — a female godchild.
- grangemouth — a port in Scotland, in Falkirk council area: now Scotland's second port, with oil refineries, shipyards, and chemical industries. Pop: 17 771 (2001)
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- hadrosaurid — (zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.
- hair colour — the colour or shade of someone's hair
- hand around — If you hand around or hand round something such as food, you pass it from one person to another in a group.
- handwrought — formed or shaped by hand, as metal objects.
- hang around — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- haplogroups — Plural form of haplogroup.