11-letter words containing h, o, l, e, i
- hereinbelow — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
- heresiology — the study of heresies.
- 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.
- hieroglyphs — Plural form of hieroglyph.
- high blower — a horse that produces a blowing sound when exhaling.
- high roller — a person who gambles for large stakes, as in a casino.
- high yellow — a term used to refer to a light-skinned black person.
- high-roller — a person who gambles for large stakes, as in a casino.
- highblooded — of high blood, family, or race
- highprofile — (rare) alternative spelling of high-profile.
- hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
- historyless — Lacking history.
- 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).
- holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- hollow tile — tile (def 5).
- holobenthic — (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths
- holy office — a congregation founded in 1542 to succeed the suppressed Inquisition and entrusted with matters pertaining to faith and morals, as the judgment of heresy, the application of canonical punishment, and the examination of books and prohibition of those held dangerous to faith and morals.
- holy willie — a person who is hypocritically pious
- home-loving — fond of one's home
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- homeoplasia — the formation, as in healing, of new tissue that is similar to the existing tissue.
- homiletical — Of or relating to familiar intercourse; social; companionable.
- homolignane — (organic chemistry) Any compound derived from a lignane by adding extra carbon atoms in a ring or sidechain.
- homologized — Simple past tense and past participle of homologize.
- homophylies — Plural form of homophyly.
- hooverville — a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
- hop trefoil — a leguminous plant, Trifolium campestre, of N temperate grasslands, with globular yellow flower heads and trifoliate leaves
- horizonless — lacking or without a horizon.
- hormonelike — Resembling a hormone or some aspect of one.
- horn silver — cerargyrite.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- horripilate — to produce horripilation on.
- hospitalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hospitalize.
- hospitalize — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitaller — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
- hostilities — a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
- 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