11-letter words containing n, o, u, r
- hang around — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hard ground — an etching ground applied to the surface of a plate held over a small flame and spread by a dabber or brayer. Compare soft ground (def 1).
- harnoncourt — Nikolaus. 1929–2016, Austrian conductor and cellist, noted for his performances using period instruments
- harpoon gun — a small cannon for shooting harpoons.
- hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heroin user — a person who regularly takes the drug heroin, who may or may not be addicted to it
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority: The candidate has claimed the moral high ground.
- hohe tauern — an Alpine mountain range in S Austria. Highest peak, Grossglockner, 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
- holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
- 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.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- honor bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- honor guard — guard of honor.
- honor-bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- honorius ii — (Lamberto Scannabecchi) died 1130, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1124–30.
- honorius iv — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- honourarium — Nonstandard spelling of honorarium.
- hormogonium — a portion of filament in blue-green algae that becomes detached and reproduces by cell division.
- 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.
- horned pout — a bullhead, especially the brown bullhead.
- horrisonous — sounding dreadful
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- 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 owner — A house owner is a person who owns a house.
- house-train — to housebreak.
- housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- 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.
- houseperson — someone who manages a household; househusband or housewife.
- human error — sb's mistake
- hundredfold — a hundred times as great or as much.
- hunker down — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hurry along — rush, go quickly
- hydrogenous — of or containing hydrogen.
- hydroxonium — (chemistry) The cation obtained by reacting a proton with water - H3O+; hydronium.
- hypernymous — Having the qualities of a hypernym.
- hyponitrous — of or derived from hyponitrous acid.
- icosandrous — belonging to the Icosandria, a class of plants
- idoxuridine — a thymidine analogue, C 9 H 11 IN 2 O 5 , used topically for the ocular treatment of herpes simplex keratitis.
- ignoramuses — Plural form of ignoramus.
- illuminator — a person or thing that illuminates.
- illusionary — of, relating to, or characterized by illusions; deceptive; misleading.
- imino group — the bivalent group =NH not linked to any acid group.
- imponderous — (obsolete) imponderable.
- importunacy — the quality or condition of being importunate; importunateness.