11-letter words containing h, o
- air cushion — an inflatable cushion, usually made of rubber or plastic
- air hostess — An air hostess is a woman whose job is to look after the passengers in an aircraft.
- alcoholized — Simple past tense and past participle of alcoholize.
- alcoholysis — chemical decomposition resulting from the interaction of a compound and an alcohol.
- aldohexoses — Plural form of aldohexose.
- alethiology — the branch of logic dealing with truth and error.
- algophagous — feeding on algae, as certain insects.
- algophilist — Person who is subject to algophilia; person who enjoys pain and gets sexual pleasure from it.
- algorithmic — a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.
- alkanethiol — any compound containing an alkyl group joined to a mercapto group, as methyl mercaptan or methanethiol, CH 3 SH.
- allelomorph — allele
- allelopathy — the inhibitory effect of one living plant upon another by the release of toxic substances
- allocheiria — a medical condition in which sensation is felt at a different point on the body from that stimulated
- allochronic — (biology, of taxa) occurring in different geologic time.
- allographic — Relating to allographs or allography.
- allomorphic — any of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound.
- allophylian — (of languages, especially those of Europe and Asia) neither Indo-European nor Semitic.
- aloha shirt — Hawaiian shirt
- aloha state — Hawaii (used as a nickname).
- alpha stock — any of the most active securities on the Stock Exchange of which there are between 100 and 200; at least ten market makers must continuously display the prices of an alpha stock and all transactions in them must be published immediately
- alpha-omega — the beginning and the end. Rev. 1:8.
- altar cloth — the cloth used for covering an altar: often applied also to the frontal
- alto-phobia — an abnormal fear of heights; acrophobia.
- amaxophobia — Fear of riding in a vehicle.
- amenorrheic — of or relating to amenorrhea
- amenorrhoea — abnormal absence of menstruation
- amethocaine — The drug tetracaine.
- aminophenol — any of three isomeric forms that are soluble crystalline solids, used as a dye intermediate (meta- and ortho-), in dyeing hair, fur, and textiles (ortho- and para-), and as a photographic developer (para-). Formula: C6H4NH2OH
- ammophilous — (of organisms) living or growing in sand
- amniography — an x-ray examination of the amniotic sac after the injection of an opaque solution, performed to permit visualization of the umbilical cord and the placenta.
- amorphously — lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless: the amorphous clouds.
- ampere-hour — a practical unit of quantity of electricity; the quantity that flows in one hour through a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere. 1 ampere-hour is equivalent to 3600 coulombs
- amphibiotic — having an aquatic larval form and a terrestrial adult form, as amphibians
- amphibolite — a metamorphic rock consisting mainly of amphibole and plagioclase
- amphibology — ambiguity of expression, esp when due to a grammatical construction, as in save rags and waste paper
- amphibolous — ambiguous or equivocal, especially when due to the uncertain grammatical construction of a word or phrase.
- amphicelous — concave on both sides, as the bodies of the vertebrae of fishes.
- amphichroic — producing two colours, one on reacting with an acid, the other on reacting with a base
- amphictyony — (in ancient Greece) a religious association of states for the maintenance of temples and the cults connected with them
- amphidromia — a family festival in ancient Athens in honor of the birth of a child, during which the child received its name.
- amphigenous — (of certain parasitic fungi) growing on both sides of leaves.
- amphigories — Plural form of amphigory.
- amphikaryon — a diploid nucleus.
- amphilochus — a seer, the son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, and the brother of Alcmaeon.
- amphipodous — (of certain invertebrates, such as sand hoppers) having both swimming and jumping appendages
- amphithuron — amphithyra (def 1).
- amphithyron — amphithyra (def 1).
- amphophilic — (cytology) That can be stained with either an acidic or basic dye.
- amphoriskos — a miniature amphora.
- amyotrophic — (medicine) Characterized by atrophy of the muscles.