11-letter words containing o, u, r, l
- glumiferous — having glumes
- go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
- golden hour — the first hour after a serious accident, when it is crucial that the victim receives medical treatment in order to have a chance of surviving
- golden rule — a rule of ethical conduct, usually phrased “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” or, as in the Sermon on the Mount, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so unto them.” Matt. 7:12; Luke 6:31.
- golf course — the ground or course over which golf is played. A standard full-scale golf course has 125 to 175 acres (51 to 71 hectares), usually with 18 holes varying from 100 to 650 yards (91 to 594 meters) in length from tee to cup.
- grammalogue — a word symbolized by a sign or letter.
- granulation — the act or process of granulating.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- granulomata — an inflammatory tumor or growth composed of granulation tissue.
- gratulation — a feeling of joy.
- gratulatory — (archaic) congratulatory.
- great mogul — the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
- groin-vault — a vault or ceiling created by the intersection of vaults.
- grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground loop — a sharp horizontal loop performed, usually involuntarily, while touching the ground.
- ground plan — Also called groundplot. the plan of a floor of a building.
- ground plum — a prostrate milk vetch, Astragalus crassicarpus, of the legume family, growing in the prairie regions of North America.
- ground rule — Usually, ground rules. basic or governing principles of conduct in any situation or field of endeavor: the ground rules of press conferences.
- groundcloth — A groundcloth is a piece of waterproof material which you put on the ground to sleep on when you are camping.
- groundlings — Plural form of groundling.
- groundsills — Plural form of groundsill.
- 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)
- guerrillero — a guerrilla
- gun control — government regulation of the sale and ownership of firearms.
- gustatorily — in a gustatory manner
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- hair colour — the colour or shade of someone's hair
- haplogroups — Plural form of haplogroup.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard liquor — spirits, alcoholic drink
- haute-loire — a department in central France. 1931 sq. mi. (5000 sq. km). Capital: Le Puy.
- hazardously — In a hazardous manner.
- hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- hexyl group — any of five univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 6 H 13 −.
- high colour — (hardware) A colour depth of 16 (or 15) bits per pixel. Compare true colour.
- hilariously — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hirsutulous — hirtellous.
- holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- 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.
- horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
- 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.