11-letter words containing r, h, o
- honor guard — guard of honor.
- honor trick — (in certain bidding systems) a high card or set of high cards that can reasonably be expected to take a trick, the total worth of such cards in a hand being the basis for evaluating its strength and bidding.
- honor-bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- honorifical — honorific
- honorius ii — (Lamberto Scannabecchi) died 1130, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1124–30.
- honorius iv — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- honourarium — Nonstandard spelling of honorarium.
- 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
- hooverville — a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
- hop trefoil — a leguminous plant, Trifolium campestre, of N temperate grasslands, with globular yellow flower heads and trifoliate leaves
- hoppergrass — grasshopper (def 1).
- horizonless — lacking or without a horizon.
- horizontals — Plural form of horizontal.
- hormigueros — a city in W Puerto Rico, S of Mayagüez.
- hormogonium — a portion of filament in blue-green algae that becomes detached and reproduces by cell division.
- hormonelike — Resembling a hormone or some aspect of one.
- 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 silver — cerargyrite.
- horn timber — a timber, often one of several, rising from the sternpost of a wooden vessel to support the overhang of the stern.
- horn-rimmed — having the frames or rims made of horn or tortoise shell, or plastic that simulates either of these: horn-rimmed glasses.
- horn-spread — (of a horned creature) the distance between the outermost tips of the horns.
- hornblendic — Of or pertaining to hornblende.
- horned frog — any of various frogs having a marked protuberance on the head, cheek, or upper eyelid.
- 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 pout — a bullhead, especially the brown bullhead.
- 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.
- hornswoggle — to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.
- horny coral — a gorgonian.
- horographer — a person who reckons time
- horoscopist — One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer.
- horripilant — causing horripilation, ie goose flesh, or the flesh to creep
- horripilate — to produce horripilation on.
- horrisonant — Having an unpleasant sound.
- horrisonous — sounding dreadful
- horror film — a film with a frightening storyline and atmosphere
- horror show — a situation filled with or causing horror.
- 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 brass — a brass ornament, originally intended for the harness of a horse.
- horse conch — a marine gastropod, Pleuroploca gigantea, having a yellowish, spired shell that grows to a length of 2 feet (0.6 meters).
- horse guard — a black and yellow sand wasp, Bembix carolina, of the southern U.S., preying on flies that gather around horses and cattle.
- horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- horse opera — a television or radio program or motion picture about the Wild West, often presented serially and usually dealing with adventures of cowboys, gunmen, gold prospectors, etc. Compare Western (def 8).
- horse rider — a person riding a horse
- horse sense — common sense.
- horse's ass — a stupid or foolish person.
- horse-coper — coper.
- horse-drawn — A horse-drawn carriage, cart, or other vehicle is one that is pulled by one or more horses.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.