11-letter words containing l, e, n, s, h, o
- helminthous — having intestinal worms
- helmsperson — A helmsman or helmswoman.
- 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)
- heptathlons — Plural form of heptathlon.
- hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- holoenzymes — an enzyme complete in both its apoenzyme and coenzyme components.
- honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- hopefulness — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- horizonless — lacking or without a horizon.
- 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.
- horn silver — cerargyrite.
- hornswoggle — to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.
- hot-selling — (of a good or product) that sells in large numbers
- house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
- houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
- hudson seal — muskrat fur that has been plucked and dyed to give the appearance of seal.
- hydroplanes — Plural form of hydroplane.
- hylogenesis — the formation or coming into being of matter
- iconophiles — a connoisseur of icons or images.
- interschool — Occurring or taking place between two or more schools.
- keogh plans — a pension plan for an unincorporated business entity or self-employed person.
- landholders — Plural form of landholder.
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
- 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
- lithogenous — of or relating to organisms, as coral, that secrete stony deposits.
- loathedness — the state or condition of being an object of disgust and dislike
- longhandles — long underwear.
- longsighted — Alternative spelling of long-sighted.
- loutishness — The state or quality of being loutish, of behaving like a lout.
- lychnoscope — lowside window.
- lymph nodes — any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes.
- lymphokines — Plural form of lymphokine.
- mellophones — Plural form of mellophone.
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- melpomenish — Tragic; relating to tragedy in a literary or theatrical work.
- mendelssohn — Felix [fee-liks;; German fey-liks] /ˈfi lɪks;; German ˈfeɪ lɪks/ (Show IPA), (Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy) 1809–47, German composer.
- methoxsalen — a potent compound, C 1 2 H 8 O 4 , derived from the seeds of the plant Ammi majus: used in combination with certain ultraviolet radiation for the treatment of severe psoriasis.
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- nemophilist — (rare) One who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
- 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.
- non-hostile — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- nonetheless — however; nevertheless.
- nonwashable — Not washable.