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 capet — Hugh 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.