11-letter words containing s, l, o, h
- hills cloud — a hypothetical dense, disc-shaped area within the Oort cloud
- hills hoist — an Australian brand of rotary clothesline
- hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
- hippologist — the study of horses.
- hirsutulous — hirtellous.
- hispidulous — covered with stiff, short hairs.
- histologist — a specialist in histology.
- historyless — Lacking history.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- holluschick — a young male fur seal.
- holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
- holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- holoenzymes — an enzyme complete in both its apoenzyme and coenzyme components.
- 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.
- holophytism — the property of being holophytic
- holus-bolus — all at once; altogether.
- holy island — Also called Lindisfarne. an island off the E coast of Northumberland, England. 3 miles (4.8 km) long.
- holy orders — (used with a singular verb) the rite or sacrament of ordination.
- holy spirit — the spirit of God.
- holystoning — Present participle of holystone.
- home-school — to teach (one's children) at home instead of sending them to school.
- homeoplasia — the formation, as in healing, of new tissue that is similar to the existing tissue.
- homeschools — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of homeschool.
- 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
- homophilous — Homophilic.
- homophylies — Plural form of homophyly.
- homoplastic — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- homosexuals — Plural form of homosexual.
- 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
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- 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.
- hopefulness — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- horizonless — lacking or without a horizon.
- 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.
- horn silver — cerargyrite.
- hornswoggle — to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.
- 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 laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
- horseplayer — a habitual bettor on horse races.
- hospitalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hospitalize.
- hospitalism — hospital conditions having an adverse effect on patients.
- hospitalist — a physician who specializes in treating hospitalized patients; a specialist in inpatient medicine.
- hospitality — the friendly reception and treatment of guests or strangers.
- hospitalize — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.