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10-letter words containing h, p, u

  • 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.
  • houseproud — Alternative form of house-proud.
  • hugh capetHugh or Fr. Hugues [yg] /üg/ (Show IPA), a.d. 938?–996, king of France 987–996.
  • humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
  • hump bluey — to carry one's bundle; tramp
  • humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
  • hung up on — simple past tense and past participle of hang.
  • hush puppy — a small, unsweetened cake or ball of cornmeal dough fried in deep fat.
  • hypanthium — a cup-shaped or tubular body formed by the conjoined sepals, petals, and stamens.
  • hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
  • hypercubes — Plural form of hypercube.
  • hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
  • hypocausts — Plural form of hypocaust.
  • hypogenous — growing beneath, or on the undersurface, as fungi on leaves.
  • hypogeusia — a disease characterized by a decreased ability to taste and, sometimes, to smell: associated with a zinc deficiency
  • 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).
  • hypoptilum — (ornithology) An aftershaft.
  • hypotenuse — the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
  • hypozeugma — the use of a succession of subjects with a single predicate.
  • hypozeuxis — the use of a series of parallel clauses, each of which has a subject and predicate, as in “I came, I saw, I conquered.”.
  • imposthume — (obsolete) an abscess.
  • inch-pound — one-twelfth of a foot-pound. Abbreviation: in-lb.
  • isopachous — having the same thickness.
  • jamshedpur — a city in SE Jharkhand, in NE India.
  • judgeships — Plural form of judgeship.
  • jump-shift — a jump bid in a suit different from the suit just bid by one's partner.
  • kampuchean — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
  • keep house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
  • keypunched — Simple past tense and past participle of keypunch.
  • keypuncher — A keypunch.
  • keypunches — Plural form of keypunch.
  • krung thep — Bangkok
  • launch pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
  • leprechaun — a dwarf or sprite.
  • leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
  • leukopathy — (pathology) depigmentation of the skin.
  • lighten up — be less serious
  • lumpfishes — Plural form of lumpfish.
  • lunch-pail — lunchbox.
  • lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
  • mediumship — The state of being a medium (psychic conduit).
  • mesohippus — any of a group of prehistoric horselike animals of the genus Mesohippus, which had three toes and which lived during the Oligocene epoch
  • milk punch — a beverage containing milk and alcoholic liquor with sugar, flavoring, etc.
  • mouth harp — harmonica (def 1).
  • mouthparts — Plural form of mouthpart.
  • mouthpiece — a piece placed at or forming the mouth, as of a receptacle or tube.
  • mugho pine — a prostrate, shrubby pine, Pinus mugo mugo, native to Europe, cultivated as an ornamental.
  • multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
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