10-letter words containing h, s, u, a, n
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- malthusian — of or relating to the theories of T. R. Malthus, which state that population tends to increase faster, at a geometrical ratio, than the means of subsistence, which increases at an arithmetical ratio, and that this will result in an inadequate supply of the goods supporting life unless war, famine, or disease reduces the population or the increase of population is checked.
- manichaeus — Mani
- metahumans — Plural form of metahuman.
- miscanthus — any tall perennial bamboo-like grass of the genus Miscanthus, native from southern Africa to SE Asia and cultivated for ornament in temperate regions
- monanthous — bearing one flower.
- munchausen — Karl Friedrich Hieronymus [kahrl free-drikh hee-ey-roh-ny-moo s] /kɑrl ˈfri drɪx ˌhi eɪˈroʊ nüˌmʊs/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1720–97, German soldier, adventurer, and teller of tales.
- nail brush — small brush for cleaning finger- and toe-nails
- natashquan — a river in Labrador and Quebec, E Canada, flowing S to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 241 miles (388 km) long.
- naughtiest — Superlative form of naughty; most naughty.
- nordhausen — a city in central Germany: site of a former Nazi concentration camp.
- nuthatches — Plural form of nuthatch.
- oberhausen — a city in W Germany, in the lower Ruhr valley.
- onslaughts — Plural form of onslaught.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
- purchasing — buying
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- push along — to go away
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- ruffianish — like a ruffian
- saharanpur — a city in NW Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
- shakuntala — Sakuntala.
- shakyamuni — Sakyamuni.
- sharpen up — hone, refine
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- snakemouth — rose pogonia.
- snaphaunce — an early flintlock mechanism for igniting a charge of gunpowder in a gun.
- sound head — a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- staunchest — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- sub-branch — a further branch or division of something within an already established branch or division
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sunbathing — to take a sunbath.
- sungchiang — Older Spelling. Songjiang.
- superhuman — above or beyond what is human; having a higher nature or greater powers than humans have: a superhuman being.
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- swung dash — a mark of punctuation (∼) used in place of a word or part of a word previously spelled out.
- synanthous — relating to plants whose leaves and flowers expand simultaneously
- tannhauser — a German lyric poet of the 13th century: a well-known legend tells of his stay with Venus in the Venusberg and his later repentance.
- thinsulate — a type of thermal insulation made of synthetic fibers, used esp. as a lining in clothing
- thousandth — last in order of a series of a thousand.