11-letter words containing s, o, t, h, e
- historiated — (especially of initial letters on an illuminated manuscript) decorated with animals, flowers, or other designs that have a narrative or symbolic purpose.
- historicise — to interpret something as a product of historical development.
- historicize — to interpret something as a product of historical development.
- historiette — a short historical story or anecdote
- historyless — Lacking history.
- home waters — territorial waters
- homeostases — Plural form of homeostasis.
- homeostasis — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- homeostatic — the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
- homeotherms — Plural form of homeotherm.
- homesteaded — a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- homesteader — the owner or holder of a homestead.
- homestretch — the straight part of a racetrack from the last turn to the finish line. Compare backstretch.
- homogenates — Plural form of homogenate.
- homopterans — Plural form of homopteran.
- 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.
- homozygotes — Plural form of homozygote.
- honest john — Informal. an honest, sincere man. a man so trusting and innocent that he may be easily cheated or deceived.
- honesty bar — an unattended area in a hotel, resort, etc, where patrons may serve themselves drinks and are expected to leave money to pay for them
- honesty box — a container into which members of the public are trusted to place payments when there is no attendant to collect them
- honey-sweet — sweet as honey.
- honeyeaters — Plural form of honeyeater.
- 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
- hopscotched — Simple past tense and past participle of hopscotch.
- horse-trade — to bargain or trade shrewdly.
- horsetrader — (literally) A person who buys and sells horses, especially one who makes such transactions in a clever or skillful manner.
- hospitalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hospitalize.
- hospitalize — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitaller — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- hostile bid — A hostile takeover bid is one that is opposed by the company that is being bid for.
- hostilities — a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
- hot cockles — a children's game in which a blindfolded player is hit by one of the other players and then tries to guess which one did the hitting.
- hot flushes — a sudden unpleasant hot feeling in the skin, caused by endocrine imbalance, esp experienced by women at menopause
- hot-desking — the practice of not assigning permanent desks in a workplace, so that employees may work at any available desk
- hot-selling — (of a good or product) that sells in large numbers
- hotel staff — employees of a hotel
- house agent — a real-estate agent.
- house guest — a person staying with a household as a guest for one night or longer.
- house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
- house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- house style — a set of rules concerning spellings, typography, etc, observed by editorial and printing staff in a particular publishing or printing company
- house white — a white wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- house-train — to housebreak.
- houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
- housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
- houseguests — Plural form of houseguest.
- houselights — (plural only) The lights that illuminate the audience section of an auditorium or theatre.
- housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.