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11-letter words containing l, o, c, h, n

  • fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
  • francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
  • french loaf — baguette, long stick of bread
  • french roll — a circular or oval bread roll having a hard or crispy crust.
  • glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
  • godchildren — Plural form of godchild.
  • goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
  • granolithic — (of concrete) containing fine granite chippings or crushed granite, used to render floors and surfaces.
  • groundcloth — A groundcloth is a piece of waterproof material which you put on the ground to sleep on when you are camping.
  • half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
  • halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
  • hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
  • handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
  • heckelphone — A woodwind instrument resembling a large oboe, with a range about an octave lower.
  • hectoringly — So as to hector or bully.
  • hedonically — of, characterizing, or pertaining to pleasure: a hedonic thrill.
  • hegemonical — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
  • holobenthic — (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • 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.
  • honorifical — honorific
  • 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.
  • hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
  • horny coral — a gorgonian.
  • hotel chain — a group of hotels which belong to the same company or owner, or are associated in some way
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
  • hypocentral — (geology) Of or pertaining to the hypocentre of an earthquake.
  • iconophiles — a connoisseur of icons or images.
  • in the cold — outside, exposed to cold weather
  • interschool — Occurring or taking place between two or more schools.
  • intraschool — Within a single school.
  • janus cloth — a worsted fabric, each side of which has a different color.
  • john calvinJohn (Jean Chauvin or Caulvin) 1509–64, French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation.
  • kente cloth — a fabric made esp. in Ghana, woven in strips of brightly patterned bands interspersed with bands of black
  • kohl pencil — a thin cylindrical cosmetic instrument used to darken the area around the eyes
  • koilonychia — an abnormal condition in which the outer surfaces of the nails are concave; spoon nail.
  • launch into — begin enthusiastically
  • launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
  • leuconychia — White discoloration appearing on nails. Also known as white nails.
  • leukonychia — Alt form leuconychia.
  • lichenology — the branch of biology that studies lichens.
  • loch linnheLoch, Loch Linnhe.
  • loch lomondLoch, a lake in W Scotland. 23 miles (37 km) long; 27 sq. mi. (70 sq. km).
  • long branch — a city in E New Jersey: seaside resort.
  • lophobranch — belonging or pertaining to the Lophobranchii, the group of fishes comprising the pipefishes, sea horses, snipefishes, trumpetfishes, etc.
  • luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
  • lunch-hooks — Usually, lunchhooks. hands.
  • lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
  • lycanthropy — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
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