10-letter words containing h, o, n, s, u
- homogonous — pertaining to monoclinous flowers that do not differ in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to heterogonous).
- homonymous — of the nature of homonyms; having the same name.
- homoousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence or substance of the Father and the Son is the same (opposed to Heteroousian).
- homunculus — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- honorius i — died a.d. 638, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 625–638.
- honourless — Without honour; dishonourable or dishonoured.
- horrendous — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- hothousing — Present participle of hothouse.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- housatonic — a river flowing S from NW Massachusetts through SW Connecticut to Long Island Sound near Stratford, Connecticut. 148 miles (240 km) long.
- house wine — a wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- house wren — a common American wren, Troglodytes aedon, that nests around houses.
- house-hunt — to search for a house to buy or rent
- housebound — restricted to the house, as by bad weather or illness.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- housefront — the façade of a house
- houselling — administration of the Eucharist
- housephone — a telephone, used for making calls within a hotel or apartment house, that does not have a direct line to an exchange and whose calls are routed through the building's switchboard.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- houstonian — a native or resident of Houston, Texas.
- houstonias — Plural form of houstonia.
- huddleston — (Ernest Urban) Trevor, 1913–1998, English Anglican archbishop and antiapartheid activist in Africa.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- huntswoman — Feminine form of huntsman.
- huntswomen — Plural form of huntswoman.
- hush money — a bribe to keep someone silent about something, especially to keep the receiver from exposing a scandal.
- hutchinson — Anne Marbury [mahr-buh-ree] /ˈmɑr bə ri/ (Show IPA), 1591–1643, American religious liberal, born in England: banished from Massachusetts 1637.
- hypogenous — growing beneath, or on the undersurface, as fungi on leaves.
- hypogynous — situated on the receptacle beneath the pistil and free of the ovary, as stamens, petals, or sepals.
- hyponymous — a term that denotes a subcategory of a more general class: “Chair” and “table” are hyponyms of “furniture.”. Compare superordinate (def 4).
- hypotenuse — the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
- ingenhousz — Jan (jɑn). 1730–99, Dutch plant physiologist and physician, who discovered photosynthesis
- krummhorns — Plural form of krummhorn.
- long house — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- longhouses — Plural form of longhouse.
- loucheness — The quality of being louche, shifty or disreputable.
- lunchboxes — Plural form of lunchbox.
- lunchrooms — Plural form of lunchroom.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- monanthous — bearing one flower.
- mouthiness — The property of being mouthy.
- mush-melon — muskmelon.
- muttonfish — ocean pout.
- neighbours — Plural form of neighbour.
- newshounds — Plural form of newshound.
- node house — a prefabricated shelter used by welders during the construction of an oil rig
- nonhousing — not concerned with or related to housing
- nordhausen — a city in central Germany: site of a former Nazi concentration camp.
- nourishing — promoting or sustaining life, growth, or strength: a nourishing diet.