11-letter words containing a, c, h, l, s
- hexastichal — of or pertaining to a hexastich
- high places — (in ancient Semitic religions) a place of worship, usually a temple or altar on a hilltop.
- holoblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
- holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- homoblastic — (of a plant or plant part) showing no difference in form between the juvenile and the adult structures
- homoplastic — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- 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.
- house place — (in medieval architecture) a room common to all the inhabitants of a house, as a hall.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- hydrocorals — any colonial marine animal of the hydrozoan order Stylasterina having a calcareous skeleton resembling that of the true corals.
- hypercasual — Extremely casual.
- hyperplasic — Relating to hyperplasia.
- hypoblastic — Of, or relating to the hypoblast.
- hypoplastic — Pathology. abnormal deficiency of cells or structural elements.
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- intraschool — Within a single school.
- isenthalpic — pertaining to or characterized by constant enthalpy.
- isocephalic — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isolecithal — homolecithal.
- isophthalic — Of or pertaining to isophthalic acid and its derivatives.
- janus cloth — a worsted fabric, each side of which has a different color.
- krasny luch — a city in SE Ukraine, E of Donetsk.
- lake school — Lake Poets.
- lancet fish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- landsknecht — a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd.
- latchstring — a string passed through a hole in a door, for raising the latch from the outside.
- launch shoe — an attachment to an aircraft from which a missile is launched
- lech walesa — Lech [lek] /lɛk/ (Show IPA), born 1943, Polish labor leader: a leader of Solidarity 1980; president 1990–96; Nobel Peace Prize 1983.
- lecithinase — An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of lecithin.
- leprechauns — a dwarf or sprite.
- lobachevski — Nikoˈlai Iˈvanovich (nikɔˈlaɪ iˈvɑnɔvɪtʃ ) ; nēk^ōlīˈ ēväˈn^ōvich) 1793-1856; Russ. mathematician
- lobachevsky — Nikolai Ivanovich [nyi-kuh-lahy ee-vah-nuh-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ iˈvɑ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1856, Russian mathematician.
- lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
- logomachies — Plural form of logomachy.
- logomachist — One who starts fights about the meaning of words.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- manchineels — Plural form of manchineel.
- matchlessly — In a matchless manner.
- mechanicals — (US) mechanical fixtures and fittings.
- mesenchymal — Of or pertaining to the mesenchyme.
- milch glass — milk glass.
- misch metal — a pyrophoric alloy, containing approximately 50 percent cerium and 45 percent lanthanum, made from a mixture of various rare-earth chlorides by electrolysis.
- monochasial — Relating to the monochasium.
- moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache
- multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- nicholas ii — (Gérard de Bourgogne) died 1061, pope 1058–61.
- nicholas iv — (Girolamo Masci) died 1292, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1288–92.
- nonphysical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- old scratch — the devil; Satan.
- oligarchies — Plural form of oligarchy.