11-letter words containing s, p, r
- horse opera — a television or radio program or motion picture about the Wild West, often presented serially and usually dealing with adventures of cowboys, gunmen, gold prospectors, etc. Compare Western (def 8).
- horse-coper — coper.
- horseplayer — a habitual bettor on horse races.
- 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.
- hot springs — city in central Ark., adjoining a national park: the park has 47 hot mineral springs: pop. 36,000
- house group — a group of Christians who regularly meet to worship, study the Bible, etc, in someone's house
- house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
- house-proud — taking pride in one's house and housekeeping.
- housekeeper — a person, often hired, who does or directs the domestic work and planning necessary for a home, as cleaning or buying food.
- houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
- houseperson — someone who manages a household; househusband or housewife.
- http server — (web) (Or "web server") A server process running at a website which sends out web pages in response to HTTP requests from remote browsers. If one site runs more than one server they must use different port numbers. Alternatively, several hostnames may be mapped to the same computer in which case they are known as "virtual servers".
- hydrophones — Plural form of hydrophone.
- hydrophytes — Plural form of hydrophyte.
- hydroplanes — Plural form of hydroplane.
- hydroponics — the cultivation of plants by placing the roots in liquid nutrient solutions rather than in soil; soilless growth of plants. Compare aeroculture, geoponics (def 2).
- hydroscopes — Plural form of hydroscope.
- hydroscopic — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
- hydrosphere — the water on or surrounding the surface of the globe, including the water of the oceans and the water in the atmosphere.
- hygrographs — Plural form of hygrograph.
- hygrophytes — Plural form of hygrophyte.
- hygroscopes — Plural form of hygroscope.
- hygroscopic — absorbing or attracting moisture from the air.
- hyoplastral — of or relating to hyoplastra
- hyperacusis — (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds.
- hyperbolise — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperbolism — the use of hyperbole.
- hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
- hypercasual — Extremely casual.
- hyperemesis — vomitus.
- hypergelast — Someone who laughs excessively.
- hyperinosis — a blood condition characterized by the presence of excessive levels of fibrin
- hypermeters — Plural form of hypermeter.
- hypermnesia — the condition of having an unusually vivid or precise memory.
- hypermnesic — the condition of having an unusually vivid or precise memory.
- hypernymous — Having the qualities of a hypernym.
- hyperplanes — Plural form of hyperplane.
- hyperplasia — abnormal multiplication of cells.
- hyperplasic — Relating to hyperplasia.
- hypersaline — Having an abnormally high salinity.
- hyperscript — Informix. The object-based programming language for Wingz, used for creating charts, graphs, graphics, and customised data entry.
- hypersexual — unusually or excessively active in or concerned with sexual matters.
- hypersomnia — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- hypersphere — the generalization of a sphere to more than three dimensions.
- hyperstatic — redundant (def 5b).
- hypersthene — a dark iron magnesium silicate, an orthorhombic pyroxene containing more than 14 percent ferrous oxide.
- hyperstress — extreme stress or anxiety
- 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").
- hypervisors — Plural form of hypervisor.
- hypocenters — Plural form of hypocenter.