11-letter words containing h, o, l, e, r, s
- leaseholder — a tenant under a lease.
- lecherously — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- lemon shark — a common shallow-water shark, Negaprion brevirostris, having a yellowish body and inhabiting inshore regions of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil.
- lens holder — a container which holds a thin curved piece of glass or plastic in place
- leper house — a hospital for lepers; leprosarium.
- lethiferous — lethal.
- light horse — cavalry carrying light arms and equipment.
- lithosphere — the solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere).
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- loggerheads — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- low hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 2 feet 6 inches (76 cm) high.
- lower house — one of two branches of a legislature, generally more representative and with more members than the upper branch.
- lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- nephrolepis — any fern of the tropical genus Nephrolepis, some species of which are grown as ornamental greenhouse or house plants for their handsome deeply-cut drooping fronds: family Polypodiaceae
- nephroliths — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- neutrophils — Plural form of neutrophil.
- north slope — the northern coastal area of Alaska, rich in oil and natural gas: so called because it is N of the Brooks Range sloping down to the Arctic Ocean.
- northerlies — Plural form of northerly.
- nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
- oligarchies — Plural form of oligarchy.
- onslaughter — An onslaught.
- oral herpes — a disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 1, characterized primarily by a cluster of small, transient blisters chiefly at the edge of the lip or nostril; herpes labialis.
- orthoclases — Plural form of orthoclase.
- ostrichlike — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
- otherworlds — Plural form of otherworld.
- overclothes — clothing worn outside other garments.
- overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- philosopher — a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields.
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- phytosterol — Biochemistry. any of various sterols obtained from plants.
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- post-holder — a person who has a particular job or position
- prep school — preparatory school.
- preschooler — a child below the official school starting age, usually a child up to age five.
- priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- razor shell — any of various sand-burrowing bivalve molluscs of the genera Ensis and Solen, which have a long tubular shell
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- rhône-alpes — a region of E France: mainly mountainous, rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the east; drained by the Rivers Rhône, Saône, and Isère
- righteously — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.