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11-letter words containing h, o, u, n, d

  • heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
  • hideousness — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
  • high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority: The candidate has claimed the moral high ground.
  • hold button — a button on a telephone that enables someone to interrupt an incoming call temporarily in order to answer another call.
  • hold out on — to delay in or keep from telling (a person) some new or important information
  • home ground — an area, locality, or subject with which one is intimately familiar: When you see those familiar mountains appear on the horizon, you'll know you are back on home ground. Baseball and football are home ground for this sports-loving community.
  • honey guide — any of several small, usually dull-colored birds of the family Indicatoridae, of Africa and southern Asia, certain species of which are noted for their habit of leading people or animals to nests of honeybees in order to feed on the honey, larvae, and wax of the nests after they have been broken open.
  • honor bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
  • honor guard — guard of honor.
  • honor-bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
  • horned pout — a bullhead, especially the brown bullhead.
  • houndstooth — woven or printed with a pattern of broken or jagged checks: a hound's-tooth jacket.
  • houppelande — (in the Middle Ages) a robe or long tunic, belted or with a fitted bodice, usually having full trailing sleeves and often trimmed or lined with fur.
  • house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
  • houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
  • hudson seal — muskrat fur that has been plucked and dyed to give the appearance of seal.
  • hundredfold — a hundred times as great or as much.
  • hunker down — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
  • hydrogenous — of or containing hydrogen.
  • hydroxonium — (chemistry) The cation obtained by reacting a proton with water - H3O+; hydronium.
  • lymphonodus — (anatomy) lymph node.
  • muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
  • nonhumanoid — Not humanoid.
  • north-bound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
  • null method — a method of measurement using an electrical device, as a Wheatstone bridge, in which the quantity to be measured is balanced by an opposing known quantity that is varied until the resultant of the two is zero.
  • on schedule — with no delay
  • orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
  • otter hound — one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.
  • out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
  • pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
  • port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
  • pseudophone — an instrument for producing illusory auditory localization by changing the relationship between the receptor and the actual direction of the sound.
  • push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • put on hold — suspend
  • qinhuangdao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
  • quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • quinhydrone — a dark green, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 1 2 H 1 0 O 4 , used in solution, together with a platinum wire, as an electrode (quinhy·drone elec·trode)
  • roundarched — having semicircular arches
  • roundheaded — (of a person) possessing a round head; brachycephalic.
  • school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
  • shootaround — an informal match or practice session
  • shop around — compare prices
  • show around — guide round a new place
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • shunt-wound — noting a motor or a generator that has the field circuit connected in parallel with the armature winding.
  • sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
  • smoothhound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
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