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11-letter words containing s, t, h

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • hospitalman — an enlisted person working as a hospital assistant; corpsman.
  • host family — family one lodges with
  • 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 springs — city in central Ark., adjoining a national park: the park has 47 hot mineral springs: pop. 36,000
  • 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
  • hotsy-totsy — about as right as can be; perfect: He always thinks everything is just hotsy-totsy.
  • houndstooth — woven or printed with a pattern of broken or jagged checks: a hound's-tooth jacket.
  • 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.
  • housemother — a woman in charge of a residence, especially for children, students, or young women, who acts as hostess, chaperon, and occasionally as housekeeper.
  • 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.
  • houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
  • housesitter — Alternative spelling of house-sitter.
  • hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
  • hsuan t'ung — Pu-yi, Henry.
  • hsuan tsung — a.d. 685–762, Chinese emperor of the Tang dynasty 712–756.
  • 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".
  • hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
  • hucksteress — a female huckster
  • huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
  • hucksterish — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
  • hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
  • hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
  • humidistats — Plural form of humidistat.
  • humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
  • hurtfulness — The property of being hurtful.
  • husk tomato — ground cherry (def 1).
  • husk-tomato — ground-cherry
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