11-letter words containing s, h, a, l, o
- flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
- flashfloods — Plural form of flashflood.
- flashpoints — Plural form of flashpoint.
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- gastroliths — Plural form of gastrolith.
- geophysical — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- glasshouses — Plural form of glasshouse.
- goldthreads — Plural form of goldthread.
- gospel oath — an oath sworn on the Gospels
- grass cloth — a cloth made from plant fibres, such as jute or hemp
- hagiologist — A writer on the lives of the saints; a hagiographer.
- half nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from behind the opponent, passes one arm under the corresponding arm of the opponent and locks the hand on the back of the opponent's neck.
- half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
- half-nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from behind the opponent, passes one arm under the corresponding arm of the opponent and locks the hand on the back of the opponent's neck.
- half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
- halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
- halsingborg — a seaport in SW Sweden, opposite Helsingör.
- 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.
- haplogroups — Plural form of haplogroup.
- harbor seal — a small, spotted seal, Phoca vitulina, of the Atlantic coasts of North America and Europe and the Pacific coast of northern North America.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- 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
- hasta luego — so long; (I'll) see you soon
- hazardously — In a hazardous manner.
- hectopascal — An SI unit of pressure and stress equal to 100 pascals.
- heliographs — Plural form of heliograph.
- heliostatic — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- hematoblast — an immature blood cell, especially a red blood cell.
- hematolysis — hemolysis.
- heptathlons — Plural form of heptathlon.
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- hilariously — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
- holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- holophrases — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- holophrasis — the expression of the ideas of a phrase or sentence in one word; polysynthesis: a language characterized by holophrasis.
- holy island — Also called Lindisfarne. an island off the E coast of Northumberland, England. 3 miles (4.8 km) long.
- homeoplasia — the formation, as in healing, of new tissue that is similar to the existing tissue.
- homo-sexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- 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.
- homosexuals — Plural form of homosexual.
- hooded seal — a large seal, Cystophora cristata, the male of which has a large, distensible, hoodlike sac on the head.
- hooke's law — the law stating that the stress on a solid substance is directly proportional to the strain produced, provided the stress is less than the elastic limit of the substance.
- hooliganism — a ruffian or hoodlum.
- horizontals — Plural form of horizontal.
- 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.