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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
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