10-letter words containing h, i, r, u
- lithuresis — the passage of gravel in the urine.
- loudhailer — (British) A megaphone or bullhorn.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- manchurian — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- michurinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Ryazan.
- milk churn — a container used to transport milk from farms
- minehunter — a naval vessel that searches for mines by electronic means
- mirthfully — In a mirthful manner.
- murthering — Present participle of murther.
- nail brush — small brush for cleaning finger- and toe-nails
- neighbours — Plural form of neighbour.
- nephridium — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- neutrophil — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- nourishing — promoting or sustaining life, growth, or strength: a nourishing diet.
- nudibranch — a shell-less, marine snail of the suborder Nudibranchia, having external, often branched respiratory appendages on the back and sides.
- orichalcum — a brass rich in zinc, prepared by the ancients.
- outrightly — Outright.
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- parachutic — involving a parachute
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- prepublish — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- promethium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element. Symbol: Pm; atomic number: 61.
- pubic hair — hair growing in genital area
- publishers — a publishing company
- purchasing — buying
- pursership — the position of purser
- quad right — (in computer typesetting) flush right.
- queer fish — strange person
- quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
- re-hauling — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
- redruthite — an important dark-grey or black copper ore mineral which is a sulphide
- rehumanize — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- relinquish — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rheumatism — any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
- rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
- rhinovirus — any of a varied and widespread group of picornaviruses responsible for many respiratory diseases, including the common cold.
- rhoicissus — any plant of the climbing genus Rhoicissus, related to and resembling cissus, esp R. rhomboidea (grape ivy), grown for its shiny evergreen foliage: family Vitaceae
- rhumb line — a curve on the surface of a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle. It is the path taken by a vessel or aircraft that maintains a constant compass direction.
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- rightfully — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- rough fish — any fish that is not valued as a sport fish or considered a significant source of food by sport fishers.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- roughrider — a person who breaks horses to the saddle.
- rudderfish — any of various fishes having the habit of following behind ships, as a pilot fish.
- ruffianish — like a ruffian