11-letter words containing s, h, o, u
- hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
- hirsutulous — hirtellous.
- hispidulous — covered with stiff, short hairs.
- hocus-pocus — a meaningless chant or expression used in conjuring or incantation.
- holluschick — a young male fur seal.
- holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- holus-bolus — all at once; altogether.
- homeomerous — showing or relating to homeomery; consisting of similar parts
- homo-sexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- homogeneous — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
- homoiousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence of the Son is similar to, but not the same as, that of the Father.
- homophilous — Homophilic.
- homophonous — identical in pronunciation.
- homopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Homoptera, an order of insects closely related to the hemipterous insects (in some classifications a suborder of Hemiptera) but having membranous forewings and hind wings, including the aphids, cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and scale insects.
- homosexuals — Plural form of homosexual.
- homosporous — having the spores of one kind only.
- honey mouse — a small agile Australian marsupial, Tarsipes spenserae, having dark-striped pale brown fur, a long prehensile tail, and a very long snout and tongue with which it feeds on honey, pollen, and insects: family Phalangeridae
- honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- hongshui he — a river in SW China, flowing SE to the Xiang Jiang. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- honorius ii — (Lamberto Scannabecchi) died 1130, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1124–30.
- honorius iv — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- hopefulness — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- hoppus foot — unit of volume for round timber
- hormigueros — a city in W Puerto Rico, S of Mayagüez.
- 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.
- horrisonous — sounding dreadful
- 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.
- horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- hot flushes — a sudden unpleasant hot feeling in the skin, caused by endocrine imbalance, esp experienced by women at menopause
- houndstooth — woven or printed with a pattern of broken or jagged checks: a hound's-tooth jacket.
- hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
- house agent — a real-estate agent.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- house group — a group of Christians who regularly meet to worship, study the Bible, etc, in someone's house
- house guest — a person staying with a household as a guest for one night or longer.
- house mouse — a brownish-gray Old World mouse, Mus musculus, now common in the U.S. in or near houses.
- house music — an up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul-music singing, sometimes with elements of rap music.
- house organ — a periodical issued by a business or other establishment for its employees, customers, and other interested readers, presenting news about the firm, its products, and its personnel.
- house owner — A house owner is a person who owns a house.
- house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
- house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
- house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- house snake — any African snake of the genus Boaedon, some species of which are important mouse and rat catchers in areas of human habitation.
- house style — a set of rules concerning spellings, typography, etc, observed by editorial and printing staff in a particular publishing or printing company