11-letter words containing a, r, h, u, s
- hilariously — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- 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.
- horse guard — a black and yellow sand wasp, Bembix carolina, of the southern U.S., preying on flies that gather around horses and cattle.
- horse laugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- horselaughs — Plural form of horselaugh.
- hourglasses — Plural form of hourglass.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- house organ — a periodical issued by a business or other establishment for its employees, customers, and other interested readers, presenting news about the firm, its products, and its personnel.
- house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- house-train — to housebreak.
- houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
- housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
- housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
- houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
- housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
- 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.
- hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hydragogues — Plural form of hydragogue.
- hydromedusa — the medusa form of a hydrozoan.
- hyperacusis — (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds.
- hypercasual — Extremely casual.
- hypersexual — unusually or excessively active in or concerned with sexual matters.
- 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.
- joshua tree — an evergreen tree, Yucca brevifolia, growing in arid or desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having long, twisted branches.
- kashmir rug — a handmade Oriental rug that is woven flat without pile and covered entirely with embroidered patterns of colored yarns.
- katharevusa — the puristic Modern Greek literary language (distinguished from Demotic).
- kongur shan — a mountain in China, in W Xinjiang: the highest peak in the Pamirs. Height: 7719 m (25 325 ft)
- krasny luch — a city in SE Ukraine, E of Donetsk.
- kurdaitchas — Plural form of kurdaitcha.
- last hurrah — a politician's final campaign.
- lazar house — (formerly) a hospital for persons with infectious diseases, esp leprosy
- leprechauns — a dwarf or sprite.
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
- manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
- marsh buggy — swamp buggy.
- meerschaums — Plural form of meerschaum.
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- nailbrushes — Plural form of nailbrush.
- naturopaths — Plural form of naturopath.
- noun phrase — a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
- nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.