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11-letter words containing l, e, u

  • hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
  • house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
  • house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
  • house style — a set of rules concerning spellings, typography, etc, observed by editorial and printing staff in a particular publishing or printing company
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
  • 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.
  • houselights — (plural only) The lights that illuminate the audience section of an auditorium or theatre.
  • houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
  • housewifely — of, like, or befitting a housewife.
  • hpcode-plus — A descendant of HPcode with data types, developed to be an ANDF language.
  • huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
  • hudson seal — muskrat fur that has been plucked and dyed to give the appearance of seal.
  • huitlacoche — Corn smut prepared as a delicacy.
  • hull girder — the theoretical box girder formed by the continuous longitudinal members of the hull of a ship, providing resistance to hogging and sagging.
  • humbuggable — capable of being humbugged
  • humiliative — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
  • humorlessly — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
  • 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
  • hurtfulness — The property of being hurtful.
  • hurtleberry — whortleberry.
  • husbandable — Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
  • husbandless — Without a husband.
  • husbandlike — resembling a husband
  • 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.
  • hyposulfite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
  • idle pulley — a loose pulley made to press or rest on a belt in order to tighten or guide it.
  • if you like — You say if you like when you are making or agreeing to an offer or suggestion in a casual way.
  • ill-founded — based on weak evidence, illogical reasoning, or the like: an ill-founded theory.
  • ill-natured — having or showing an unkindly or unpleasant disposition.
  • illaqueable — capable of being ensnared
  • illuminable — capable of being illuminated.
  • illuminance — illumination (def 6).
  • illuminated — to supply or brighten with light; light up.
  • illuminates — to supply or brighten with light; light up.
  • illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
  • illustrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of illustrate.
  • imperiously — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
  • impetuously — of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive: an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.
  • implausible — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
  • implicature — potential inference that is not logical entailment.
  • importunely — (obsolete) In an importune manner.
  • imprudently — Without prudence; in an imprudent manner.
  • impulse buy — spur-of-the-moment purchase
  • impulsively — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
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