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11-letter words containing h, u, r, l

  • heptangular — having seven angles.
  • herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
  • hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
  • heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
  • hexyl group — any of five univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 6 H 13 −.
  • hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
  • hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
  • high colour — (hardware)   A colour depth of 16 (or 15) bits per pixel. Compare true colour.
  • hilariously — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
  • hirsutulous — hirtellous.
  • holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
  • homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • horn clause — (logic)   A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
  • horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
  • horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
  • hour circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the celestial poles and containing a point on the celestial sphere, as a star or the vernal equinox.
  • hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
  • householder — a person who holds title to or occupies a house.
  • householdry — (archaic) The management and upkeep of a household.
  • houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
  • huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
  • hull girder — the theoretical box girder formed by the continuous longitudinal members of the hull of a ship, providing resistance to hogging and sagging.
  • humorlessly — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
  • humourously — (UK, uncommon, nonstandard) alternative spelling of humorously.
  • hundredfold — a hundred times as great or as much.
  • hurdle race — a race in which people have to jump over a number of obstacles while running
  • hurdle rate — the rate of return that a proposed project must provide if it is to be worth considering: usually calculated as the cost of the capital involved adjusted by a risk factor
  • hurly-burly — noisy disorder and confusion; commotion; uproar; tumult.
  • hurry along — rush, go quickly
  • hurtfulness — The property of being hurtful.
  • hurtleberry — whortleberry.
  • hypercasual — Extremely casual.
  • hypercolour — a dye that causes a fabric to change colour with a change of temperature
  • hypersexual — unusually or excessively active in or concerned with sexual matters.
  • infraphylum — (taxonomy) A taxon below subphylum and above superclass.
  • kelly hours — a suggestion for the name of the hours before and after the traditional school day during which child-minding facilities are provided for the children of working parents
  • krasny luch — a city in SE Ukraine, E of Donetsk.
  • lake zürich — a lake in N Switzerland, mostly in Zürich canton. Area: 89 sq km (34 sq miles)
  • last hurrah — a politician's final campaign.
  • laugh track — a separate sound track of prerecorded laughter added to the sound track of a radio or television program to enhance or feign audience responses.
  • laughworthy — worthy of being laughed at
  • lazar house — (formerly) a hospital for persons with infectious diseases, esp leprosy
  • lecherously — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
  • lectureship — the office of lecturer.
  • leper house — a hospital for lepers; leprosarium.
  • leprechauns — a dwarf or sprite.
  • let through — to allow to pass (through)
  • lethiferous — lethal.
  • leucorrhoea — a white or yellowish discharge of mucous material from the vagina, often an indication of infection
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