11-letter words containing o, h, r, i
- historicize — to interpret something as a product of historical development.
- historiette — a short historical story or anecdote
- historyless — Lacking history.
- histotrophy — A form of matrotrophy exhibited by some live-bearing sharks and rays, in which the developing embryo receives additional nutrition from its mother in the form of uterine secretions called histotroph.
- histrionics — an actor.
- histrionism — Histrionic behaviour.
- hit or miss — careless; inattentive; haphazard: The professor criticized the hit-or-miss quality of our research.
- hit-or-miss — careless; inattentive; haphazard: The professor criticized the hit-or-miss quality of our research.
- hobgoblinry — the behaviour or activities of hobgoblins
- hod carrier — a mason's assistant whose work is to carry hods of materials to the mason.
- holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
- holographic — Also, holographic [hol-uh-graf-ik, hoh-luh-] /ˌhɒl əˈgræf ɪk, ˌhoʊ lə-/ (Show IPA), holographical. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
- holomorphic — analytic (def 5).
- holophrasis — the expression of the ideas of a phrase or sentence in one word; polysynthesis: a language characterized by holophrasis.
- holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
- holy spirit — the spirit of God.
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- homeporting — Present participle of homeport.
- homeshoring — A migration of service employees from the office to the home, where such homes have proper communications equipment.
- homeworking — Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office.
- homocentric — having a common center; concentric.
- homodimeric — Of or pertaining to a homodimer.
- homogenizer — to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
- homographic — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- homoiotherm — a homoiothermal animal.
- homomorphic — pertaining to two sets that are related by a homomorphism.
- homothermic — (biology) warm-blooded.
- honor trick — (in certain bidding systems) a high card or set of high cards that can reasonably be expected to take a trick, the total worth of such cards in a hand being the basis for evaluating its strength and bidding.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- honorifical — honorific
- 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.
- hoodie crow — a subspecies of the carrion crow, Corvus corone cornix, that has a grey body and black head, wings, and tail
- hooverville — a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
- hop trefoil — a leguminous plant, Trifolium campestre, of N temperate grasslands, with globular yellow flower heads and trifoliate leaves
- horizonless — lacking or without a horizon.
- horizontals — Plural form of horizontal.
- hormigueros — a city in W Puerto Rico, S of Mayagüez.
- hormogonium — a portion of filament in blue-green algae that becomes detached and reproduces by cell division.
- hormonelike — Resembling a hormone or some aspect of one.
- horn silver — cerargyrite.
- horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
- horn-rimmed — having the frames or rims made of horn or tortoise shell, or plastic that simulates either of these: horn-rimmed glasses.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- horoscopist — One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer.
- horripilant — causing horripilation, ie goose flesh, or the flesh to creep
- horripilate — to produce horripilation on.
- horrisonant — Having an unpleasant sound.
- horrisonous — sounding dreadful