11-letter words containing h, a, m, u
- housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
- hum and haw — If you hem and haw, or in British English hum and haw, you take a long time to say something because you cannot think of the right words, or because you are not sure what to say.
- human being — any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
- human error — sb's mistake
- humbuggable — capable of being humbugged
- humectation — A moistening.
- humidistats — Plural form of humidistat.
- humiliating — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- humiliative — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- husk tomato — ground cherry (def 1).
- husk-tomato — ground-cherry
- hydrargyrum — mercury.
- hydromedusa — the medusa form of a hydrozoan.
- inasmuch as — to the extent that, in that
- infraphylum — (taxonomy) A taxon below subphylum and above superclass.
- inhumanness — Quality of being inhuman.
- insomuch as — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- itsukushima — an island off the SW coast of Japan, in the Inland Sea: ancient Shinto shrine.
- jure humano — by human law.
- kanchipuram — a city in SE India, in Tamil Nadu: a sacred Hindu town known as "the Benares of the South"; textile industries. Pop: 152 984 (2001)
- kashmir rug — a handmade Oriental rug that is woven flat without pile and covered entirely with embroidered patterns of colored yarns.
- lucky charm — an object that is believed to bring its owner good luck
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lump hammer — a heavy hammer used for driving stakes or breaking stone
- lunar month — month (def 5).
- lunar-month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- machine gun — automatic firearm
- machine-gun — to shoot at with a machine gun.
- machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
- macrophylum — a group of languages that are of a higher order than a phylum
- main gauche — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
- manor house — the house of the lord of a manor.
- manure heap — a pile of animal excreta, esp on a farm, kept for use as fertiliser
- marlborough — John Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
- marsh buggy — swamp buggy.
- maryborough — a seaport in E Australia.
- massachuset — a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians of eastern Massachusetts.
- match up to — If someone or something does not match up to what was expected, they are smaller, less impressive, or of poorer quality.
- meerschaums — Plural form of meerschaum.
- megatherium — An extinct giant ground sloth of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in America, reaching a height of 16 feet (5 m) when standing erect.
- meliphagous — feeding on honey
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- metalithium — A heavy isotope of the simplest alkali metal, (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3 and containing 8 neutrons. Metalithium is an artificial isotope produced by bombarding Lithium 7 with neutrons. It is radioactive, with a half-life of 0.84 seconds.
- midas touch — the ability to turn any business venture one is associated with into an extremely profitable one.
- minute hand — the hand that indicates the minutes on a clock or watch, usually longer than the hour hand.
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.