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11-letter words containing r, h, a, e

  • hierodeacon — a monk who is also a deacon.
  • hierography — a treatise on religion or sacred things
  • hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
  • hierophobia — an irrational fear of sacred objects or people
  • hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
  • high german — the group of West Germanic languages that in a.d. c400–c500 underwent the second consonant shift described by Grimm's Law. Abbreviation: HG.
  • high-hatter — to snub or treat condescendingly.
  • higher rate — (in Britain) a rate of income tax that is higher than the basic rate and becomes payable on taxable income in excess of a specified limit
  • highhearted — Alt form high-hearted.
  • highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
  • hilary term — the spring term at Oxford University, the Inns of Court, and some other educational establishments
  • hill farmer — a farmer on a hill farm
  • hill walker — a person who takes part in hill walking
  • hinderances — Plural form of hinderance.
  • hinderlands — the buttocks
  • hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
  • hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
  • hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
  • hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
  • his-and-her — denoting two matching or identical items, one intended for use by a male and the other by a female: his-and-her towels in the bathroom; his-and-her sweatshirts.
  • historiated — (especially of initial letters on an illuminated manuscript) decorated with animals, flowers, or other designs that have a narrative or symbolic purpose.
  • hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
  • hiv-related — related to the HIV virus
  • hoary cress — a perennial Mediterranean plant, Cardaria (or Lepidium) draba, with small white flowers: a widespread troublesome weed: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • hod carrier — a mason's assistant whose work is to carry hods of materials to the mason.
  • hog cholera — an acute, usually fatal, highly contagious disease of swine caused by an RNA virus of the genus Pestivirus, characterized by high fever, lack of appetite, diarrhea, and lethargy.
  • hohe tauern — an Alpine mountain range in S Austria. Highest peak, Grossglockner, 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
  • holiday rep — A holiday rep is someone employed by a holiday company to help look after people when they are on holiday.
  • holographed — to make by the use of holography.
  • holographer — One who creates holograms.
  • holophrases — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
  • holy father — a title of the pope.
  • home waters — territorial waters
  • homesteader — the owner or holder of a homestead.
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • homopterans — Plural form of homopteran.
  • homothermal — homoiothermal.
  • honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
  • honey eater — any of numerous oscine birds of the family Meliphagidae, chiefly of Australasia, having a bill and tongue adapted for extracting the nectar from flowers.
  • honey-eater — any of numerous oscine birds of the family Meliphagidae, chiefly of Australasia, having a bill and tongue adapted for extracting the nectar from flowers.
  • honeyeaters — Plural form of honeyeater.
  • hoppergrass — grasshopper (def 1).
  • 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-spread — (of a horned creature) the distance between the outermost tips of the horns.
  • horned lark — a lark, Eremophila alpestris, of the Northern Hemisphere, having a tuft of feathers on each side of the crown of the head.
  • horned toad — an insectivorous iguanid lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of western North America, having hornlike spines on the head and a flattened body covered with spiny scales.
  • horographer — a person who reckons time
  • horripilate — to produce horripilation on.
  • horse brass — a brass ornament, originally intended for the harness of a horse.
  • horse guard — a black and yellow sand wasp, Bembix carolina, of the southern U.S., preying on flies that gather around horses and cattle.
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