10-letter words containing h, o, n, u
- hu yaobang — 1915–89, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party 1981–87.
- hucklebone — hipbone.
- 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).
- human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
- humaniform — Like a human or that of a human in form, seeming, or appearance.
- humdudgeon — an imaginary illness
- hung up on — simple past tense and past participle of hang.
- hunky-dory — about as well as one could wish or expect; satisfactory; fine; OK.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- huntiegowk — a fool's errand or a person sent on an April fool's errand
- huntingdon — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- huntington — Collis Potter, 1821–1900, U.S. railroad developer.
- 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.
- hyaluronic — Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.
- 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.
- inch-pound — one-twelfth of a foot-pound. Abbreviation: in-lb.
- ingenhousz — Jan (jɑn). 1730–99, Dutch plant physiologist and physician, who discovered photosynthesis
- inhumation — to bury; inter.
- john tukey — (person) The eminent statistician credited with coining the term "bit" in 1949.
- jotunnheim — the home of the giants
- kahanamoku — Duke Paoa [pah-oh-ah] /pɑˈoʊ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1968, U.S. swimmer and surfer.
- krummhorns — Plural form of krummhorn.
- kuang-chou — Guangzhou
- lake huron — a member of an Indian tribe, the northwestern member of the Iroquoian family, living west of Lake Huron.
- laugh down — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- 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.
- lucanthone — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- lumen-hour — a unit of luminous energy, equal to that emitted in 1 hour by a light source emitting a luminous flux of 1 lumen. Abbreviation: lm-hr.
- lunch hour — pause from work to eat midday meal
- lunchboxes — Plural form of lunchbox.
- lunchrooms — Plural form of lunchroom.
- lunchwagon — a small bus, truck, or other vehicle outfitted for selling or for serving light meals and snacks to the public.
- lyam-hound — a bloodhound.
- lyme-hound — lyam-hound.
- macdonough — Thomas, 1783–1825, U.S. naval officer: defeated British on Lake Champlain 1814.
- makunouchi — a Japanese fast food dish consisting of fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables served with rice and an umeboshi
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- mcnaughton — Andrew George Latta [lat-uh] /ˈlæt ə/ (Show IPA), 1887–1966, Canadian army officer, statesman, diplomat, and scientist.
- moa hunter — the name given by anthropologists to the early Māori inhabitants of New Zealand
- monanthous — bearing one flower.
- monohulled — (nautical) Having a single hull.