9-letter words containing h, a, u
- goulashes — Plural form of goulash.
- grauncher — a person who crushes or destroys
- grayhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- guangzhou — Canton.
- guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
- guarulhos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.
- guildhall — (in Britain) the hall built or used by a guild or corporation for its assemblies; town hall.
- habituate — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- hacked up — (jargon, programming) Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
- hackitude — (jargon) An even sillier word for hackishness.
- hacqueton — an upholstered garment for the upper body worn under chain mail or such a garment covered with chain mail
- hadrosaur — a bipedal dinosaur of the genus Hadrosaurus, belonging to the ornithopod family Hadrosauridae of the late Cretaceous Period, having broad, flat jaws for scooping up water plants.
- hair bulb — the end of a hair follicle containing active hair-growing cells; situated under the skin
- hairbrush — a brush for smoothing and styling the hair.
- half buck — a half dollar; the sum of 50 cents.
- half-blue — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- half-butt — a snooker cue longer than an ordinary cue, usually used with a long rest
- half-full — (of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
- half-hour — a period of 30 minutes.
- half-shut — partially closed
- half-turn — a 180-degree turn; a direct reversal of direction or orientation, as from front to back or left to right.
- half-used — previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car.
- halieutic — Of or pertaining to fishing.
- halituous — (obsolete) Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous.
- halleluja — Alternative spelling of hallelujah.
- hamamatsu — a city on S central Honshu, in central Japan.
- hamburger — a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground or chopped beef, usually in a roll or bun, variously garnished.
- hammurabi — 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia.
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- han wu ti — (Liu Ch'e; Liu Che) 156–87 b.c, emperor of China 140–87.
- handbound — (of books) bound by hand.
- handcuffs — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- handguard — A guard on the front of a weapon for hand and finger protection, or to allow for attachments to the weapon.
- hands up! — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handsturn — an amount of work or the period of time spent doing a piece of work
- hanukkiah — (Judaism) A nine-branched menorah used during Hanukkah.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harangued — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- haranguer — One who harangues.
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- harborous — welcoming and offering hospitality
- harboured — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harbourer — A person who harbours another.
- hard drug — an addicting drug capable of producing severe physical or psychological dependence, as heroin.
- hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- hardcourt — relating to a type of tennis court that is made of hard material
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing