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11-letter words containing s, a, l, c, h, o

  • coach class — the US and Canad. name for economy class
  • coelacanths — Plural form of coelacanth.
  • color phase — a variant, atypical coloration of fur, feathers, skin, etc. occurring in an individual or an animal group
  • corivalship — the state of being mutual rivals
  • cram school — a private institution, especially in East Asia, that uses an accelerated curriculum to prepare students for university entrance exams.
  • dame school — (formerly) a small school, often in a village, usually run by an elderly woman in her own home to teach young children to read and write
  • dame-school — a school in which the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
  • dicephalous — having two heads
  • eschatology — The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
  • geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
  • grass cloth — a cloth made from plant fibres, such as jute or hemp
  • half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
  • half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
  • halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
  • hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
  • hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
  • handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
  • harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
  • hectopascal — An SI unit of pressure and stress equal to 100 pascals.
  • heliostatic — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
  • holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
  • holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
  • homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
  • homoplastic — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
  • 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.
  • house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
  • house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
  • hydrocorals — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
  • hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
  • hypoplastic — Pathology. abnormal deficiency of cells or structural elements.
  • icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
  • intraschool — Within a single school.
  • isocephalic — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
  • isolecithal — homolecithal.
  • isophthalic — Of or pertaining to isophthalic acid and its derivatives.
  • janus cloth — a worsted fabric, each side of which has a different color.
  • lake school — Lake Poets.
  • launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
  • lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
  • lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
  • lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
  • logomachies — Plural form of logomachy.
  • logomachist — One who starts fights about the meaning of words.
  • lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
  • monochasial — Relating to the monochasium.
  • moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache
  • nicholas ii — (Gérard de Bourgogne) died 1061, pope 1058–61.
  • nicholas iv — (Girolamo Masci) died 1292, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1288–92.
  • nonphysical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • old scratch — the devil; Satan.
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