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11-letter words containing u, r, c

  • heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
  • hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
  • helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
  • heliculture — the science or occupation of raising snails for food.
  • hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
  • herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
  • hermeneutic — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
  • hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
  • hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
  • high church — pertaining to the view or practice in the Anglican church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition, especially in adherence to sacraments, rituals, and obedience to church authority.
  • high colour — (hardware)   A colour depth of 16 (or 15) bits per pixel. Compare true colour.
  • hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
  • homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
  • honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
  • 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.
  • hour circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the celestial poles and containing a point on the celestial sphere, as a star or the vernal equinox.
  • house-craft — skill in domestic management
  • huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
  • 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.
  • hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
  • humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
  • humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
  • hurdle race — a race in which people have to jump over a number of obstacles while running
  • hyperacuity — an extreme acuteness (of the senses)
  • hyperacusis — (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds.
  • hypercasual — Extremely casual.
  • hypercolour — a dye that causes a fabric to change colour with a change of temperature
  • ice-scoured — noting an area having surface features resulting from scouring by an advancing ice sheet during glaciation.
  • ichthyosaur — any fishlike marine reptile of the extinct order Ichthyosauria, ranging from 4 to 40 feet (1.2 to 12 meters) in length and having a round, tapering body, a large head, four paddlelike flippers, and a vertical caudal fin.
  • icing sugar — Icing sugar is very fine white sugar that is used for making icing and sweets.
  • icosandrous — belonging to the Icosandria, a class of plants
  • icteritious — jaundiced; yellow
  • implicature — potential inference that is not logical entailment.
  • importunacy — the quality or condition of being importunate; importunateness.
  • in full cry — When someone is in full cry, they are expressing their views very strongly or are very active.
  • in-accuracy — something inaccurate; error.
  • incertitude — uncertainty or doubtfulness.
  • include war — Excessive multi-leveled including within a discussion thread, a practice that tends to annoy readers. In a forum with high-traffic newsgroups, such as Usenet, this can lead to flames and the urge to start a kill file.
  • incongruent — not congruent.
  • incongruity — the quality or condition of being incongruous.
  • incongruous — out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: an incongruous effect; incongruous behavior.
  • incorrupted — not corrupted
  • incorruptly — Without corruption.
  • incouraging — Present participle of incourage.
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