9-letter words containing h, i, r, u
- higher-up — a person in a position of higher authority in an organization; superior.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- hiphugger — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- hippurite — an extinct type of bivalve mollusc (family Hippuritidae) found as fossils from the late Cretaceous period
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- hired gun — a person hired to kill someone, as a gunfighter or professional killer.
- hirsuties — Hirsutism.
- hirsutism — excessive hairiness, especially in women.
- hirudinea — the class comprising the leeches.
- hirundine — of, relating to, or resembling the swallow.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- honouring — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- hubristic — excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
- humanizer — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humbert i — (Umberto I) 1844–1900, king of Italy 1878–1900.
- humdinger — a person, thing, action, or statement of remarkable excellence or effect.
- humorists — Plural form of humorist.
- humouring — humor.
- humourist — (British) alternative spelling of humorist.
- humphries — (John) Barry. born 1934, Australian comic actor and writer, best known for creating the character Dame Edna Everage
- hungarian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hungary, its people, or their language.
- hungering — Present participle of hunger.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hunkering — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hunkerism — a member of the conservative faction in the Democratic Party in New York State, 1845–48.
- hurrahing — to shout “hurrah.”.
- hurricane — a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- hurriedly — moving or working rapidly, especially forced or required to hurry, as a person.
- hutterite — a member of an Anabaptist sect following the principles of Jacob Hutter (d. 1536) of Moravia and practicing community of goods and nonconformity.
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.
- hypericum — A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the St. John’s worts and rose of Sharon.
- ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.
- ibn-rushd — Averroës
- ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.
- in chorus — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- indraught — an inward flow or current, as of air or water.
- inrushing — Moving towards or into.
- inwrought — worked in or closely combined with something.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- kurashiki — a city on SW Honshu, in Japan.
- liquorish — fond of and eager for choice food.
- manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- marihuana — hemp (def 1).
- mirthfull — Archaic form of mirthful.