11-letter words containing h, u, d, e, r
- loud-hailer — a portable loudspeaker having a built-in amplifier and microphone
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- low hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 2 feet 6 inches (76 cm) high.
- murder hunt — a search for a murderer
- olethreutid — any of numerous brown or gray moths of the family Olethreutidae having mottled or banded wings and forewings, each with a truncated tip, including many crop pests, as the codling moth or oriental fruit moth.
- otter hound — one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.
- overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- preschedule — taking place ahead of schedule
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
- 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)
- readthrough — reading (def 1).
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- rideau hall — (in Canada) the official residence of the Governor General, in Ottawa
- rough edges — lack of refinement
- rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
- roundarched — having semicircular arches
- roundheaded — (of a person) possessing a round head; brachycephalic.
- rude health — If someone is in rude health, they are strong and healthy.
- rudesheimer — any of the Rheingau wines from the vineyards near Rüdesheim, a town on the Rhine River in W Germany.
- rue the day — If you rue the day that you did something, you are sorry that you did it, because it has had unpleasant results.
- rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
- rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- shrubberied — having a shrubbery
- shuddersome — tending to shudder
- slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- southlander — a person from the south
- sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- superharden — harden (def 6).
- superheated — If a liquid is superheated, it has been heated to a temperature that is higher than its boiling point without being allowed to boil.
- sure-handed — using the hands with skill and confidence; dexterous.
- thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
- third house — a legislative lobby.
- thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- thunder bay — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
- thunder egg — a globular concretion of opal, agate, or chalcedony weathered out of tuff or basalt.
- thunder mug — a chamber pot.
- thunderbird — (in the mythology of some North American Indians) a huge, eaglelike bird capable of producing thunder, lightning, and rain.
- thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
- thunderclap — a crash of thunder.