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11-letter words containing s, c, r, e

  • historicize — to interpret something as a product of historical development.
  • hitchhikers — Plural form of hitchhiker.
  • hoary cress — a perennial Mediterranean plant, Cardaria (or Lepidium) draba, with small white flowers: a widespread troublesome weed: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • home screen — television.
  • homestretch — the straight part of a racetrack from the last turn to the finish line. Compare backstretch.
  • honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
  • 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 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.
  • house-craft — skill in domestic management
  • hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
  • hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
  • hucksteress — a female huckster
  • huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
  • hucksterish — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
  • hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
  • hydroscopes — Plural form of hydroscope.
  • hygroscopes — Plural form of hygroscope.
  • hyperacusis — (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds.
  • hypercasual — Extremely casual.
  • hypermnesic — the condition of having an unusually vivid or precise memory.
  • hyperplasic — Relating to hyperplasia.
  • hyperscript — Informix. The object-based programming language for Wingz, used for creating charts, graphs, graphics, and customised data entry.
  • hyperstatic — redundant (def 5b).
  • hyperstrict — A function which is hyperstrict in some argument will fully evaluate that argument. To fully evaluate an object, evaluate it to WHNF and if it is a constructed data object (e.g. a list or tuple) then fully evaluate every component and so on recursively. Thus a hyperstrict function will fail to terminate if its argument or any component or sub-component of its argument fails to terminate (i.e. if its argument is not "total").
  • hypocenters — Plural form of hypocenter.
  • 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.
  • hypsometric — Of or relating to the use of the hypsometer; hypsographic.
  • icarian sea — the part of the Aegean Sea between Turkey and the Greek islands of Patmos and Leros.
  • ice flowers — formations of ice crystals on the surface of a still, slowly freezing body of water.
  • ice-scoured — noting an area having surface features resulting from scouring by an advancing ice sheet during glaciation.
  • icebreakers — Plural form of icebreaker.
  • icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
  • icosahedron — a solid figure having 20 faces.
  • icteritious — jaundiced; yellow
  • importances — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
  • imprecisely — In an imprecise manner.
  • imprecision — not precise; not exact; vague or ill-defined.
  • in articles — formerly, undergoing training, according to the terms of a written contract, in the legal profession
  • in chambers — in the privacy of a judge's chambers
  • in prospect — expected, predicted
  • incinerates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incinerate.
  • incrassated — Simple past tense and past participle of incrassate.
  • increasable — Pertaining to something that can be increased.
  • increasedly — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
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