11-letter words containing h, o, u, n
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heroin user — a person who regularly takes the drug heroin, who may or may not be addicted to it
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- hiccoughing — Present participle of hiccough.
- 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.
- hohe tauern — an Alpine mountain range in S Austria. Highest peak, Grossglockner, 12,457 feet (3799 meters).
- 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
- holman hunt — (James Henry) Leigh [lee] /li/ (Show IPA), 1784–1859, English essayist, poet, and editor.
- holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
- 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.
- home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
- homogeneous — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
- homoiousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence of the Son is similar to, but not the same as, that of the Father.
- homonuclear — a homonuclear molecule is composed of atoms of the same element or isotope and all of its nuclei are alike
- homophonous — identical in pronunciation.
- 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.
- honey mouse — a small agile Australian marsupial, Tarsipes spenserae, having dark-striped pale brown fur, a long prehensile tail, and a very long snout and tongue with which it feeds on honey, pollen, and insects: family Phalangeridae
- honeylocust — any of a genus (Gleditsia) of trees of the caesalpinia family, esp. a North American species (G. triacanthos) usually having strong, thorny branches, featherlike foliage, and large, twisted pods containing beanlike seeds and a sweet pulp
- honeysucker — a bird that feeds on the nectar of flowers.
- honeysuckle — any upright or climbing shrub of the genus Diervilla, especially D. lonicera, cultivated for its fragrant white, yellow, or red tubular flowers.
- hongshui he — a river in SW China, flowing SE to the Xiang Jiang. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
- 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.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- honorius ii — (Lamberto Scannabecchi) died 1130, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1124–30.
- honorius iv — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- honourarium — Nonstandard spelling of honorarium.
- hopefulness — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- hormogonium — a portion of filament in blue-green algae that becomes detached and reproduces by cell division.
- horn clause — (logic) A set of atomic literals with at most one positive literal. Usually written L <- L1, ..., Ln or <- L1, ..., Ln where n>=0, "<-" means "is implied by" and comma stands for conjuction ("AND"). If L is false the clause is regarded as a goal. Horn clauses can express a subset of statements of first order logic. The name "Horn Clause" comes from the logician Alfred Horn, who first pointed out the significance of such clauses in 1951, in the article "On sentences which are true of direct unions of algebras", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 16, 14-21. A definite clause is a Horn clause that has exactly one positive literal.
- horned pout — a bullhead, especially the brown bullhead.
- horrisonous — sounding dreadful
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- hot-tubbing — a wooden tub, usually large enough to accommodate several persons, that is filled with hot aerated water and often equipped with a thermostat and whirlpool: used for recreation or physical therapy and often placed out of doors, as on a porch.
- 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 agent — a real-estate agent.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- house organ — a periodical issued by a business or other establishment for its employees, customers, and other interested readers, presenting news about the firm, its products, and its personnel.
- house owner — A house owner is a person who owns a house.
- house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- house snake — any African snake of the genus Boaedon, some species of which are important mouse and rat catchers in areas of human habitation.
- house-clean — to clean the inside of a person's house
- house-train — to housebreak.
- housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.