11-letter words containing o, s, m, u
- gourmet sex — lovemaking that is particularly passionate, enjoyable, and imaginative
- grouse moor — a moor where grouse live or are hunted
- guardswoman — A female guardsman.
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- gudmundsson — Kristmann [krist-mahn] /ˈkrɪst mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1902–1983, Icelandic novelist.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- gummiferous — producing gum
- gymnanthous — achlamydeous.
- gymnogynous — having a naked ovary.
- gynostegium — a specialized caplike mass of tissue covering a gynoecium.
- gynostemium — the united stamens and pistil of an orchid.
- helminthous — having intestinal worms
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- hippocampus — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
- hippodamous — horse-taming
- homeomerous — showing or relating to homeomery; consisting of similar parts
- homo-sexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- homogeneous — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
- 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.
- homophilous — Homophilic.
- homophonous — identical in pronunciation.
- homopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Homoptera, an order of insects closely related to the hemipterous insects (in some classifications a suborder of Hemiptera) but having membranous forewings and hind wings, including the aphids, cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and scale insects.
- homosexuals — Plural form of homosexual.
- homosporous — having the spores of one kind only.
- honey mouse — a small agile Australian marsupial, Tarsipes spenserae, having dark-striped pale brown fur, a long prehensile tail, and a very long snout and tongue with which it feeds on honey, pollen, and insects: family Phalangeridae
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- hormigueros — a city in W Puerto Rico, S of Mayagüez.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- house mouse — a brownish-gray Old World mouse, Mus musculus, now common in the U.S. in or near houses.
- house music — an up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul-music singing, sometimes with elements of rap music.
- housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
- housemother — a woman in charge of a residence, especially for children, students, or young women, who acts as hostess, chaperon, and occasionally as housekeeper.
- humoresques — Plural form of humoresque.
- humorlessly — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
- humourously — (UK, uncommon, nonstandard) alternative spelling of humorously.
- husk tomato — ground cherry (def 1).
- husk-tomato — ground-cherry
- hydromedusa — the medusa form of a hydrozoan.
- hypernymous — Having the qualities of a hypernym.
- if you must — You say 'if you must' when you know that you cannot stop someone doing something that you think is wrong or stupid.
- ignominious — marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
- ignoramuses — Plural form of ignoramus.
- illusionism — a technique of using pictorial methods in order to deceive the eye. Compare trompe l'oeil.
- immomentous — of no value, trifling
- immunoassay — any laboratory method for detecting a substance by using an antibody reactive with it.
- impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.