11-letter words containing l, i, u
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-minute — 30 seconds
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- hallucinant — a person who experiences hallucinations
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- hard liquor — spirits, alcoholic drink
- haute-loire — a department in central France. 1931 sq. mi. (5000 sq. km). Capital: Le Puy.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- heliculture — the science or occupation of raising snails for food.
- helminthous — having intestinal worms
- hemicyclium — a sundial in the form of a concave quarter sphere having a rodlike gnomon lying within one radius and marked on its surface with arcs that lie in the same plane as the gnomon.
- 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.
- 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.
- high fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- hilariously — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hills cloud — a hypothetical dense, disc-shaped area within the Oort cloud
- hirsutulous — hirtellous.
- hispidulous — covered with stiff, short hairs.
- holluschick — a young male fur seal.
- holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- homophilous — Homophilic.
- 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.
- houselights — (plural only) The lights that illuminate the audience section of an auditorium or theatre.
- housewifely — of, like, or befitting a housewife.
- 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.
- humiliating — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- humiliative — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- hyposulfite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
- ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
- 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
- illiquation — the melting of one thing into another
- illiquidity — not readily convertible into cash; not liquid.
- illuminable — capable of being illuminated.
- illuminance — illumination (def 6).
- illuminants — Plural form of illuminant.
- illuminated — to supply or brighten with light; light up.