7-letter words containing h, a, u
- mahuang — a Chinese shrub, Ephedra sinica, that is a source of ephedrine.
- malchus — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
- malthus — Thomas Robert, 1766–1834, English economist and clergyman.
- manhour — Alternative form of man-hour.
- manhunt — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- mash-up — Music, Slang. a recording that combines vocal and instrumental tracks from two or more recordings.
- mashups — Plural form of mashup.
- matchup — a pairing or combining; linkage: a match-up of federal funds with state aid.
- mathura — a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India: Hindu shrine and holy city; reputed birthplace of Krishna.
- mauchly — John William, 1907–80, U.S. physicist and coinventor of the ENIAC, the first electronic computer 1946.
- maugham — W(illiam) Somerset [suhm-er-set,, -sit] /ˈsʌm ərˌsɛt,, -sɪt/ (Show IPA), 1874–1965, English novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer.
- maunche — a conventional representation of a sleeve with a flaring end, used as a charge.
- mauther — a girl
- maybush — a flowering shrub, Crataegus monogyna, that is native to Europe, northwestern Africa and western Asia, and that produces small white flowers
- mcluhan — Marshall, 1911–80, Canadian cultural historian and mass-communications theorist.
- mehuman — one of the seven eunuchs who served in the court of King Ahasuerus. Esther 1:10.
- meshuga — crazy; insane.
- mezuzah — a parchment scroll inscribed on one side with the Biblical passages Deut. 6:4–9 and 11:13–21 and on the other side with the word Shaddai (a name applied to God), inserted in a small case or tube so that Shaddai is visible through an aperture in front, and attached by some Jews to the doorpost of the home.
- michaux — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1899–1984, French poet and painter, born in Belgium.
- milhaud — Darius [da-ryys] /daˈryüs/ (Show IPA), 1892–1974, French composer, in U.S. from 1940.
- mishuga — meshuga
- morrhua — a codfish
- much as — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
- mudbath — Alternative spelling of mud bath.
- mudhead — (games) A MUD player who eats, sleeps, and breathes MUD. Mudheads have been known to fail their degrees, drop out, etc. with the consolation, however, that they made wizard level. When encountered in person, on a MUD or in a chat system, all a mudhead will talk about is three topics: the tactic, character, or wizard that is supposedly always unfairly stopping him/her from becoming a wizard or beating a favourite MUD; why the specific game he/she has experience with is so much better than any other; and the MUD he or she is writing or going to write because his/her design ideas are so much better than in any existing MUD. See also wannabee. To the anthropologically literate, this term may recall the Zuni/Hopi legend of the mudheads or "koyemshi", mythical half-formed children of an unnatural union. Figures representing them act as clowns in Zuni sacred ceremonies.
- muhajir — (Islam) a person who has performed the hajj.
- mujahid — (Islam) A Muslim engaging in jihad, especially armed jihad; a jihadist.
- mukhtar — The head of a village in many Arab countries and in Cyprus.
- mullahs — Plural form of mullah.
- munhall — a city in W Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- murragh — a large caddis fly, Phryganea grandis, of still and running water, esteemed by trout
- mustagh — Karakoram (def 1).
- nahuatl — a member of any of various peoples of ancient origin ranging from southeastern Mexico to parts of Central America and including the Aztecs.
- naughty — improper, tasteless, indecorous, or indecent: a naughty word.
- nkrumah — Kwame [kwah-mee] /ˈkwɑ mi/ (Show IPA), 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.
- nothura — Any member of the genus Nothura of birds in the tinamou family.
- nullahs — Plural form of nullah.
- nuraghe — any of the large, tower-shaped, prehistoric stone structures found in Sardinia and dating from the second millennium b.c. to the Roman conquest.
- nylghau — nilgai.
- ophiura — a sea creature, similar to a starfish, of the Ophiuridae family
- oughtta — Alternative spelling of oughta.
- outhaul — a rope used for hauling out a sail on a boom, yard, etc.
- outhear — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
- outlash — a sudden attack
- outwash — the material, chiefly sand or gravel, deposited by meltwater streams in front of a glacier.
- pachuca — a teenage girl who associates closely with pachucos.
- pachuco — (especially among Mexican-Americans) a teenage youth who belongs to a street gang known for its flamboyant style.
- paducah — a city in W Kentucky, at the junction of the Tennessee and Ohio rivers.
- pahouin — Fang (def 1).
- pai-hua — a colloquial form of written Chinese based on the spoken language, in use especially since 1917.