11-letter words containing m, h, o, r
- hit or miss — careless; inattentive; haphazard: The professor criticized the hit-or-miss quality of our research.
- hit-or-miss — careless; inattentive; haphazard: The professor criticized the hit-or-miss quality of our research.
- holomorphic — analytic (def 5).
- holy mother — honorific title of the Virgin Mary, often applied by analogy to the Roman Catholic Church.
- home center — a large store that specializes in a wide range of materials and supplies for home improvements or repairs.
- home ground — an area, locality, or subject with which one is intimately familiar: When you see those familiar mountains appear on the horizon, you'll know you are back on home ground. Baseball and football are home ground for this sports-loving community.
- home screen — television.
- home waters — territorial waters
- home-helper — someone who provides part-time or full-time care for a sick or disabled person at home.
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- homeomerous — showing or relating to homeomery; consisting of similar parts
- homeomorphy — the occurrence of two fossil species that appear to be similar although they are unrelated, happening as a result of convergent evolution
- homeotherms — Plural form of homeotherm.
- homeothermy — The state or condition of being homeothermic.
- homeporting — Present participle of homeport.
- homeshoring — A migration of service employees from the office to the home, where such homes have proper communications equipment.
- homesteader — the owner or holder of a homestead.
- homestretch — the straight part of a racetrack from the last turn to the finish line. Compare backstretch.
- homeworkers — Plural form of homeworker.
- homeworking — Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
- homewrecker — One who is blamed for the breakup of a marriage or family, such as an adulterous partner.
- homocentric — having a common center; concentric.
- homodimeric — Of or pertaining to a homodimer.
- homogenizer — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- homographic — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- homoiotherm — a homoiothermal animal.
- homomorphic — pertaining to two sets that are related by a homomorphism.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- homopolymer — a polymer consisting of a single species of monomer, as polyadenylic acid or polyglutamic acid.
- homopterans — Plural form of homopteran.
- homopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Homoptera, an order of insects closely related to the hemipterous insects (in some classifications a suborder of Hemiptera) but having membranous forewings and hind wings, including the aphids, cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and scale insects.
- homosporous — having the spores of one kind only.
- homothermal — homoiothermal.
- homothermic — (biology) warm-blooded.
- honeymooner — A person on his/her honeymoon.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- honourarium — Nonstandard spelling of honorarium.
- hormigueros — a city in W Puerto Rico, S of Mayagüez.
- hormogonium — a portion of filament in blue-green algae that becomes detached and reproduces by cell division.
- hormonelike — Resembling a hormone or some aspect of one.
- horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
- horn-rimmed — having the frames or rims made of horn or tortoise shell, or plastic that simulates either of these: horn-rimmed glasses.
- horror film — a film with a frightening storyline and atmosphere
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
- housemother — a woman in charge of a residence, especially for children, students, or young women, who acts as hostess, chaperon, and occasionally as housekeeper.
- howard moss — Howard, 1922–1987, U.S. poet, editor, and playwright.
- human error — sb's mistake
- humoresques — Plural form of humoresque.
- humorlessly — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.