11-letter words containing r, e, c, h, o
- homestretch — the straight part of a racetrack from the last turn to the finish line. Compare backstretch.
- homewrecker — One who is blamed for the breakup of a marriage or family, such as an adulterous partner.
- homocentric — having a common center; concentric.
- homodimeric — Of or pertaining to a homodimer.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- homothermic — (biology) warm-blooded.
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- hooded crow — a European crow, Corvus corone cornix, having a gray body and black head, wings, and tail.
- hoodie crow — a subspecies of the carrion crow, Corvus corone cornix, that has a grey body and black head, wings, and tail
- 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.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- 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 conch — a marine gastropod, Pleuroploca gigantea, having a yellowish, spired shell that grows to a length of 2 feet (0.6 meters).
- horse-coper — coper.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- horseracing — Alternative form of horse racing.
- 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.
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
- hydrocodone — an opioid analgesic, C 18 H 21 NO 3 , used to treat moderate to severe pain.
- hydromancer — One who practices hydromancy.
- hydrometric — Concerning or applying hydrometry.
- hydroscopes — Plural form of hydroscope.
- hygrometric — of or relating to the hygrometer or hygrometry.
- hygroscopes — Plural form of hygroscope.
- hypercholia — abnormally large secretion of bile.
- hypercolour — a dye that causes a fabric to change colour with a change of temperature
- hyperechoic — Of high echogenicity.
- hyperinotic — of or suffering from hyperinosis
- hypocenters — Plural form of hypocenter.
- hypocentral — (geology) Of or pertaining to the hypocentre of an earthquake.
- hypocretins — Plural form of hypocretin.
- hypocrisies — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
- hypodermics — Plural form of hypodermic.
- hypothecary — of or relating to a hypothec.
- hypothermic — Pathology. subnormal body temperature.
- hypsometric — Of or relating to the use of the hypsometer; hypsographic.
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
- ideographic — an ideogram.
- incoherence — the quality or state of being incoherent.
- incoherency — incoherence.
- interschool — Occurring or taking place between two or more schools.
- ion chamber — an apparatus for detecting and analyzing ionizing radiation, consisting of a vessel filled with a gas at normal or lower than normal pressure and fitted with two electrodes such that the current between the electrodes is a function of the amount of ionization of the gas.
- ionospheric — Of or pertaining to the ionosphere.
- isochronize — to make isochronal.
- karate chop — a sharp blow used in karate, usually delivered by a slanting stroke with the side of the hand.
- karate-chop — a sharp blow used in karate, usually delivered by a slanting stroke with the side of the hand.
- kinetochore — Biology. the place on either side of the centromere to which the spindle fibers are attached during cell division.
- la chorrera — a city in central Panama, just W of the Panama Canal.