11-letter words containing o, c, e, l
- heliochromy — the process and practice of producing a photograph that reproduces the natural colours of the subject
- heliolithic — of or relating to a civilization characterized by sun worship and megaliths
- heliometric — Of or relating to the heliometer, or to heliometry.
- heliophobic — fearing or unable to withstand sunlight
- helioscopic — of or relating to observations of the sun
- heliostatic — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- heliotropic — turning or growing toward the light.
- hematocryal — cold-blooded; poikilothermal.
- hematologic — Of or relating to hematology.
- hemeralopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in bright light; day-blind; suffering from hemeralopia.
- hemophiliac — Also, hemophile. a person having hemophilia.
- heteroclite — irregular or abnormal; anomalous.
- heterocycle — (organic chemistry) A heterocyclic compound or ring.
- heterolytic — Of or pertaining to heterolysis.
- heterotelic — (of an entity or event) having the purpose of its existence or occurrence outside of or apart from itself.
- hog cholera — an acute, usually fatal, highly contagious disease of swine caused by an RNA virus of the genus Pestivirus, characterized by high fever, lack of appetite, diarrhea, and lethargy.
- holobenthic — (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths
- holy clover — sainfoin.
- holy office — a congregation founded in 1542 to succeed the suppressed Inquisition and entrusted with matters pertaining to faith and morals, as the judgment of heresy, the application of canonical punishment, and the examination of books and prohibition of those held dangerous to faith and morals.
- home-school — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
- homeschools — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of homeschool.
- homiletical — Of or relating to familiar intercourse; social; companionable.
- 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.
- 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.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- horse block — a step or block of stone, wood, etc., for getting on or off a horse or in or out of a vehicle.
- hot cockles — a children's game in which a blindfolded player is hit by one of the other players and then tries to guess which one did the hitting.
- hotel chain — a group of hotels which belong to the same company or owner, or are associated in some way
- hour circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the celestial poles and containing a point on the celestial sphere, as a star or the vernal equinox.
- house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- hpcode-plus — A descendant of HPcode with data types, developed to be an ANDF language.
- huitlacoche — Corn smut prepared as a delicacy.
- hypercholia — abnormally large secretion of bile.
- hypercolour — a dye that causes a fabric to change colour with a change of temperature
- hypocentral — (geology) Of or pertaining to the hypocentre of an earthquake.
- hypokalemic — Having a low percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- hypovolemic — Of, pertaining to, or characterized by low volume of blood in the circulatory system; as hypovolemic shock.
- ice flowers — formations of ice crystals on the surface of a still, slowly freezing body of water.
- ichthyolite — a fossil fish.
- iconophiles — a connoisseur of icons or images.
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- idealogical — Ideologic.
- ideological — of or relating to ideology.
- ileocolitis — inflammation of the mucous membrane of the ileum and colon.
- in close-up — If you see something in close-up, you see it in great detail in a photograph or piece of film which has been taken very near to the subject.
- in lockstep — When members of the armed forces march in lockstep, they march very close to each other.
- in place of — instead of, replacing