11-letter words containing h, a, r, i, u
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- fish manure — solid waste from fish, used as a fertilizer
- fruit ranch — a farm where fruit is the main produce.
- hacking run — (jargon) (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
- hadrosaurid — (zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.
- hair colour — the colour or shade of someone's hair
- hair-curler — a cylindrical device, usually electronic and heated, used to curl the hair
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
- hard liquor — spirits, alcoholic drink
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- harrumphing — Present participle of harrumph.
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- haute-loire — a department in central France. 1931 sq. mi. (5000 sq. km). Capital: Le Puy.
- head injury — wound to the head
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
- hilariously — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
- hit-and-run — guilty of fleeing the scene of an accident or injury one has caused, especially a vehicular accident, thereby attempting to evade being identified and held responsible: a hit-and-run driver.
- holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- honourarium — Nonstandard spelling of honorarium.
- house-train — to housebreak.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hyperacuity — an extreme acuteness (of the senses)
- hyperacusis — (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds.
- 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.
- infraphylum — (taxonomy) A taxon below subphylum and above superclass.
- 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.
- kurdaitchas — Plural form of kurdaitcha.
- lake zürich — a lake in N Switzerland, mostly in Zürich canton. Area: 89 sq km (34 sq miles)
- line-hauler — a heavy-duty truck suitable for line-haul transportation.
- loud-hailer — a portable loudspeaker having a built-in amplifier and microphone
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucha libre — a form of freestyle wrestling originating in Mexico
- 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.
- 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.
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.