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11-letter words containing n, o, s, e, u, a

  • guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
  • haute-saone — a department in E France. 2075 sq. mi. (5375 sq. km). Capital: Vesoul.
  • heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
  • heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
  • 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.
  • house agent — a real-estate agent.
  • house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
  • house organ — a periodical issued by a business or other establishment for its employees, customers, and other interested readers, presenting news about the firm, its products, and its personnel.
  • house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
  • house snake — any African snake of the genus Boaedon, some species of which are important mouse and rat catchers in areas of human habitation.
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
  • house-train — to housebreak.
  • houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
  • houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
  • houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
  • hudson seal — muskrat fur that has been plucked and dyed to give the appearance of seal.
  • ignoramuses — Plural form of ignoramus.
  • inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
  • inosculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inosculate.
  • insouciance — the quality of being insouciant; lack of care or concern; indifference.
  • intravenous — within a vein.
  • isoceraunic — representing, having, or indicating equality in the frequency or intensity of thunderstorms: isoceraunic line; isoceraunic map.
  • isokeraunic — isoceraunic.
  • jealousness — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
  • juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
  • keratoconus — a degenerative condition characterized by conical protrusion of the cornea and irregular astigmatism.
  • konrad zuse — (person)   The designer of the first programming language, Plankalkül, and the first fully functional program-controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world, the Z3. He died on 1995-12-18 in Huenfeld, Germany.
  • langoustine — a large prawn, Nephrops norvegicus, used for food.
  • larcenously — In a larcenous manner.
  • launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
  • ligamentous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or forming a ligament.
  • locust bean — carob.
  • main course — Nautical. a square mainsail.
  • make rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • manniferous — resulting in or producing manna
  • manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
  • mavourneens — Plural form of mavourneen.
  • memorandums — Plural form of memorandum.
  • mensuration — the branch of geometry that deals with the measurement of length, area, or volume.
  • menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
  • mess around — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
  • montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
  • mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
  • muskallonge — muskellunge.
  • muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
  • nefariously — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
  • nematodirus — any parasitic nematode worm of the genus Nematodirus
  • neuroblasts — Plural form of neuroblast.
  • neuroplasty — Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
  • nitrosourea — any of various lipid-soluble, synthetic or naturally occurring alkylating agents that can cross the blood-brain barrier: used in the treatment of certain brain cancers.
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