9-letter words containing h, o, n, u
- hoarhound — an Old World plant, Marrubium vulgare, of the mint family, having downy leaves and small, whitish flowers, and containing a bitter, medicinal juice that is used as an expectorant, vermifuge, and laxative.
- hol-unity — A verification tool for UNITY? Version 2.1. E-mail: Flemming Andersen <[email protected]>?
- home unit — a self-contained residence which is part of a series of similar residences
- homebound — confined to one's home, especially because of illness.
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- honey bun — Also called sticky bun. a sweet spiral-shaped bun, usually with cinnamon, raisins, and nuts, coated with honey or butter and brown sugar.
- honourary — Misspelling of honorary.
- honouring — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- honourous — Rare spelling of honorous.
- hoofbound — (of horses and other hoofed animals) having the heels of the hoofs dry and contracted, causing lameness.
- horehound — an Old World plant, Marrubium vulgare, of the mint family, having downy leaves and small, whitish flowers, and containing a bitter, medicinal juice that is used as an expectorant, vermifuge, and laxative.
- hornpouts — Plural form of hornpout.
- hound dog — Chiefly Southern U.S. Dialect. hound1 (def 1).
- houndfish — Tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae.
- hounskull — a snoutlike, usually conical, visor attached to a basinet of the 14th century.
- hour hand — the hand that indicates the hours on a clock or watch.
- houseline — light cordage used for seizing.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- houyhnhnm — (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of horses endowed with reason, who rule the Yahoos, a race of degraded, brutish creatures having human form.
- howlround — the condition, resulting in a howling noise, when sound from a loudspeaker is fed back into the microphone of a public-address or recording system
- hu jintao — born 1942, Chinese Communist statesman; president of China (2003–2013)
- huey long — Crawford Williamson [wil-yuh m-suh n] /ˈwɪl yəm sən/ (Show IPA), 1815–78, U.S. surgeon.
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- hull down — the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship, floating partially submerged and supporting the remainder of the ship.
- humanhood — the state or character of being human
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- humongous — extraordinarily large.
- humouring — humor.
- humungous — humongous.
- hung over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hunt down — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- huon gulf — a gulf of the Solomon Sea, on the E coast of New Guinea.
- huon pine — a coniferous tree, Dacrydium franklinii, of Tasmania, having very small cones and yielding timber.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- huskisson — William, 1770–1830, British statesman and financier.
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- hydronaut — a person trained to work in deep-sea vessels for research and rescue purposes.
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.
- hypotonus — Hypotonia.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- 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.
- inwrought — worked in or closely combined with something.
- isanthous — having regular flowers.
- john bull — England; the English people.
- john paul — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- jotunheim — the outer world, or realm of giants; Utgard.
- junk shop — a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
- junk shot — a procedure used for stemming the flow of oil from a leaking well in which debris (such as shredded tyres, golf balls, etc) is pumped into the well at high pressure
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- kiungchow — Qiongzhou.