11-letter words containing o, u, s, e, l
- full nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from behind the opponent, passes each arm under the corresponding arm of the opponent and locks the arms at the fingers or wrists on the back of the opponent's neck.
- fulsomeness — The state or quality of being fulsome or showing overdone and insincere flattery.
- fundholders — Plural form of fundholder.
- fushionless — lacking strength or spirit
- gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
- genius loci — the guardian spirit of a place.
- glamourless — Without glamour; unglamorous, mundane.
- glasshouses — Plural form of glasshouse.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- glucosamine — an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.
- glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
- glumiferous — having glumes
- glycogenous — of or relating to the formation of sugar in the liver.
- god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
- 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.
- 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)
- guillotines — Plural form of guillotine.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- hasta luego — so long; (I'll) see you soon
- helminthous — having intestinal worms
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- homo-sexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- homosexuals — Plural form of homosexual.
- honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- hopefulness — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- 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.
- hot flushes — a sudden unpleasant hot feeling in the skin, caused by endocrine imbalance, esp experienced by women at menopause
- hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
- house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
- house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- house style — a set of rules concerning spellings, typography, etc, observed by editorial and printing staff in a particular publishing or printing company
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- 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.
- houselights — (plural only) The lights that illuminate the audience section of an auditorium or theatre.
- houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
- housewifely — of, like, or befitting a housewife.
- hpcode-plus — A descendant of HPcode with data types, developed to be an ANDF language.
- hudson seal — muskrat fur that has been plucked and dyed to give the appearance of seal.
- humorlessly — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- hyposulfite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- imperiously — domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
- impetuously — of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive: an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.