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11-letter words containing o, a, h, u

  • hippodamous — horse-taming
  • hohe tauern — an Alpine mountain range in S Austria. Highest peak, Grossglockner, 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
  • holman hunt — (James Henry) Leigh [lee] /li/ (Show IPA), 1784–1859, English essayist, poet, and editor.
  • holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
  • holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
  • homo-sexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
  • homoiousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence of the Son is similar to, but not the same as, that of the Father.
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • homosexuals — Plural form of homosexual.
  • honor guard — guard of honor.
  • honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
  • honourarium — Nonstandard spelling of honorarium.
  • 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.
  • horse guard — a black and yellow sand wasp, Bembix carolina, of the southern U.S., preying on flies that gather around horses and cattle.
  • horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
  • horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
  • 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.
  • hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
  • 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 party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
  • house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
  • 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-craft — skill in domestic management
  • house-train — to housebreak.
  • houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
  • housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
  • housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
  • houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
  • housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
  • 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.
  • hsuan chiao — Taoism (def 2).
  • hua guofeng — 1920?–2008, Chinese Communist leader: premier 1976–80.
  • hudson seal — muskrat fur that has been plucked and dyed to give the appearance of seal.
  • huitlacoche — Corn smut prepared as a delicacy.
  • hullaballoo — Alternative spelling of hullabaloo.
  • hullabaloos — Plural form of hullabaloo.
  • human error — sb's mistake
  • humectation — A moistening.
  • humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
  • hurry along — rush, go quickly
  • husk tomato — ground cherry (def 1).
  • husk-tomato — ground-cherry
  • hydragogues — Plural form of hydragogue.
  • hydromedusa — the medusa form of a hydrozoan.
  • hydroxyurea — a synthetic compound, CH 4 N 2 O 2 , used in cancer therapy.
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