12-letter words containing h, o, u, s
- nitrophilous — (of plants) growing in soil well supplied with nitrogen
- no such luck — You can say 'No such luck' when you want to express your disappointment over something.
- noncrushable — (of a container, material, etc) not easily crushed
- nonhazardous — Not hazardous; safe.
- nonscheduled — not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled: nonscheduled activities.
- nourishments — Plural form of nourishment.
- np-hilarious — (humour) An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
- occurs check — (programming) A feature of some implementations of unification which causes unification of a logic variable V and a structure S to fail if S contains V. Binding a variable to a structure containing that variable results in a cyclic structure which may subsequently cause unification to loop forever. Some implementations use extra pointer comparisons to avoid this. Most implementations of Prolog do not perform the occurs check for reasons of efficiency. Without occurs check the complexity of unification is O(min(size(term1), size(term2))) with occurs check it's O(max(size(term1), size(term2))) In theorem proving unification without the occurs check can lead to unsound inference. For example, in Prolog it is quite valid to write X = f(X). which will succeed, binding X to a cyclic structure. Clearly however, if f is taken to stand for a function rather than a constructor, then the above equality is only valid if f is the identity function. Weijland calls unification without occur check, "complete unification". The reference below describes a complete unification algorithm in terms of Colmerauer's consistency algorithm.
- ochroleucous — having an off-white colour or a white colour tinted with yellow
- octastichous — relating to a particular coiled distribution of leaves on the stem that is characterized by having eight leaves per coil on the stem
- odd-man rush — an attacking move when the defence is outnumbered by the opposing team
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- old chestnut — old saying, cliché
- oligophagous — (especially of insects) eating only a few types of food.
- ombrophilous — (of plants) tolerant of wet conditions
- ombrophobous — (of plants) not able to tolerate wet conditions
- on the house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- on the stump — If politicians are on the stump, they are campaigning for an election.
- ophiolatrous — of, relating to, or practising snake-worshipping
- ophiophagous — eating snakes.
- orchard bush — open savanna country with occasional trees and scrub, as found north of the W African forest belt
- orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
- oreopithecus — a genus of fossil primate from the Miocene coal deposits of Italy, formerly considered to be a possible hominid.
- orichalceous — relating to or resembling orichalc
- ortho-cousin — parallel cousin.
- orthocousins — the children of two brothers or two sisters
- orthopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Orthoptera, an order of insects, including the cockroaches, mantids, walking sticks, crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids, characterized by leathery forewings, membranous hind wings, and chewing mouthparts.
- orthotropous — Botany. (of an ovule) straight and symmetrical, with the chalaza at the evident base and the micropyle at the opposite extremity.
- out of hours — Something that happens out of hours happens at a time that is not during the usual hours of business or work.
- out of phase — in an unsynchronized way
- out of shape — person: unfit
- out of sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- out-of-sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- outlandishly — In an outlandish manner.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- outstretched — to stretch forth; extend: to outstretch one's hand in welcome.
- outthrusting — Present participle of outthrust.
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- overscutched — overworked; worn out
- pachycarpous — having a thick pericarp
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- pantophagous — characterized by pantophagy
- paragnathous — (of certain vertebrates) having the upper and lower jaws of equal length
- paranthropus — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Paranthropus.
- parish house — a building used by a church chiefly for administrative and social purposes.
- parlor house — (especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries) a brothel with a comfortable, often elaborately decorated parlor for the reception of clients.