11-letter words containing o, s, l, e, r
- graptolites — Plural form of graptolite.
- grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
- greasy pole — a pole covered with grease to make it slippery and difficult to climb, often used as entertainment
- greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
- grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
- groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
- groupuscule — A political or religious splinter group.
- guelderrose — snowball (sense 2)
- hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
- harbor seal — a small, spotted seal, Phoca vitulina, of the Atlantic coasts of North America and Europe and the Pacific coast of northern North America.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- hectoliters — Plural form of hectoliter.
- helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
- helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- heliometers — Plural form of heliometer.
- heliosphere — the region around the sun over which the effect of the solar wind extends.
- heliotropes — Plural form of heliotrope.
- helmsperson — A helmsman or helmswoman.
- helsingborg — a port in SW Sweden, on the Sound opposite Helsingør, Denmark: changed hands several times between Denmark and Sweden, finally becoming Swedish in 1710; shipbuilding. Pop: 121 097 (2004 est)
- herbologist — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- heresiology — the study of heresies.
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- heterolysis — The dissolution of cells by lysins or enzymes from different species.
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- heterostyly — the condition in certain plants, such as primroses, of having styles of different lengths, each type of style in flowers on different plants, which promotes cross-pollination
- hieroglyphs — Plural form of hieroglyph.
- historyless — Lacking history.
- holophrases — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- holy orders — (used with a singular verb) the rite or sacrament of ordination.
- horizonless — lacking or without a horizon.
- 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.
- horn silver — cerargyrite.
- hornswoggle — to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.
- horse block — a step or block of stone, wood, etc., for getting on or off a horse or in or out of a vehicle.
- horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
- horseplayer — a habitual bettor on horse races.
- hospitaller — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
- householder — a person who holds title to or occupies a house.
- householdry — (archaic) The management and upkeep of a household.
- houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
- humorlessly — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- hydrolysate — any compound formed by hydrolysis.
- hydroplanes — Plural form of hydroplane.
- hydroxylase — any enzyme that catalyzes the introduction of a hydroxyl group into a substance.
- hyperbolise — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperbolism — the use of hyperbole.
- hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.