11-letter words containing i, s, o, h, e
- haemostasis — Alternative spelling of hemostasis.
- haemostatic — That promotes haemostasis.
- hagioscopes — Plural form of hagioscope.
- hair stroke — a fine line in writing or printing.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- harmonizers — Plural form of harmonizer.
- hectoliters — Plural form of hectoliter.
- heinousness — The property of being heinous.
- helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
- helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- heliometers — Plural form of heliometer.
- heliophytes — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
- helioscopic — of or relating to observations of the sun
- heliosphere — the region around the sun over which the effect of the solar wind extends.
- heliostatic — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- heliotropes — Plural form of heliotrope.
- helminthous — having intestinal worms
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- hematolysis — hemolysis.
- hemianopsia — any of several conditions in which there is blindness in half of the visual field, involving one or both eyes.
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- hemisection — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
- hemopoiesis — hematopoiesis.
- hemorrhoids — Usually, hemorrhoids. Pathology. an abnormally enlarged vein mainly due to a persistent increase in venous pressure, occurring inside the anal sphincter of the rectum and beneath the mucous membrane (internal hemorrhoid) or outside the anal sphincter and beneath the surface of the anal skin (external hemorrhoid)
- hemosiderin — a yellowish-brown protein containing iron, derived chiefly from hemoglobin and found in body tissue and phagocytes, especially as the result of disorders in iron metabolism and the breakdown of red blood cells.
- hemostatics — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
- herbivorous — feeding on plants.
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- 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)
- heroin user — a person who regularly takes the drug heroin, who may or may not be addicted to it
- hesitations — Plural form of hesitation.
- hesperornis — a toothed aquatic bird of the extinct genus Hesperornis, fossils of which are found in rocks of Cretaceous age in Kansas, having the rear legs modified for swimming and reaching a length of more than 4 feet (1.2 meters).
- heteroecism — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heterolysis — The dissolution of cells by lysins or enzymes from different species.
- heteroptics — incorrect or perverted perception of what is seen; hallucinatory vision.
- heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
- heterotaxis — abnormal or irregular arrangement, as of parts of the body, geological strata, etc.
- hexastichon — hexastich.
- hibernators — Plural form of hibernator.
- hicky-horse — a seesaw.
- hideousness — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hieroglyphs — Plural form of hieroglyph.
- hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
- high season — period of greatest activity
- hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
- hip-shooter — a person who acts or talks in a rash, impetuous way
- hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
- hippodromes — Plural form of hippodrome.