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11-letter words containing n, u, l

  • gun culture — the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used
  • gun licence — an official document granting a person permission to own and use a gun, usually subject to various restrictions
  • gunslingers — Plural form of gunslinger.
  • gunslinging — Informal. gunfighter.
  • gut feeling — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion based on facts
  • gutlessness — The state or condition of being gutless; cowardice.
  • haemolutein — (obsolete) bilirubin.
  • half-hunter — a watch with a hinged lid in which a small circular opening or crystal allows the approximate time to be read
  • 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 launch — the general or official launch, esp of a website, after which all features, products, and services are understood to be available
  • harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
  • hatefulness — arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
  • heedfulness — The state or quality of being heedful.
  • hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • helminthous — having intestinal worms
  • helpfulness — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
  • heptangular — having seven angles.
  • herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
  • hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
  • highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • hold button — a button on a telephone that enables someone to interrupt an incoming call temporarily in order to answer another call.
  • hold out on — to delay in or keep from telling (a person) some new or important information
  • holman hunt — (James Henry) Leigh [lee] /li/ (Show IPA), 1784–1859, English essayist, poet, and editor.
  • holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
  • 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.
  • hopefulness — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
  • 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.
  • houppelande — (in the Middle Ages) a robe or long tunic, belted or with a fitted bodice, usually having full trailing sleeves and often trimmed or lined with fur.
  • house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
  • houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
  • houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
  • hudson seal — muskrat fur that has been plucked and dyed to give the appearance of seal.
  • 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.
  • hundredfold — a hundred times as great or as much.
  • hurry along — rush, go quickly
  • hurtfulness — The property of being hurtful.
  • husbandable — Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
  • husbandland — the holding once held by a husband or tenant farmer or the quantity of land held by him, approximately 32 acres
  • husbandless — Without a husband.
  • husbandlike — resembling a husband
  • 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
  • ill-founded — based on weak evidence, illogical reasoning, or the like: an ill-founded theory.
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