10-letter words containing h, u, d
- head wound — a wound to the head
- headhunted — Simple past tense and past participle of headhunt.
- headhunter — a person who engages in headhunting.
- headsquare — a scarf worn on the head
- heavy-duty — providing an unusual amount of power, durability, etc.: heavy-duty machinery; heavy-duty shoes.
- hedge fund — a mutual fund organized as a limited partnership and using high-risk, speculative methods to obtain large profits.
- hellhounds — Plural form of hellhound.
- heulandite — a white or transparent, colorless mineral of the zeolite family, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, CaAl 2 Si 7 O 18 ⋅6H 2 O, occurring in basic volcanic rocks in the form of crystals with a pearly luster.
- hexandrous — (of a plant) having six stamen
- hexapodous — (zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
- hiccoughed — Simple past tense and past participle of hiccough.
- hindenburg — Paul von [pawl von;; German poul fuh n] /pɔl vɒn;; German paʊl fən/ (Show IPA), (Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg) 1847–1934, German field marshal; 2nd president of Germany 1925–34.
- hindu kush — a mountain range in S Asia, mostly in NE Afghanistan, extending W from the Himalayas. Highest peak, Tirich Mir, 25,230 feet (7690 meters).
- hindustani — a standard language and lingua franca of northern India based on a dialect of Western Hindi spoken around Delhi. Abbreviation: Hind. Compare Hindi (def 2), Urdu.
- hirudinean — any annelid worm of the class Hirudinea, comprising the leeches.
- hirudinoid — of, relating to, or resembling a leech.
- hirudinous — leech-like
- hold court — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- holodiscus — a genus of flowering deciduous shrubs of the family Rosaceae
- home guard — a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
- home study — instruction in a subject given by mail and addressed to a student's home.
- honeyguide — any of a family (Indicatoridae) of small, heavily built, drab-colored piciform birds of Africa, Asia, and the East Indies: they are said to lead people or animals to bees' nests in order to eat the grubs and wax discarded by the people, etc. when they take the honeycombs
- hoodlumish — like a hoodlum
- hoodlumism — Behavior characteristic of a hoodlum.
- hooked rug — a rug made by drawing loops of yarn or cloth through a foundation of burlap or the like, to form a pattern.
- horrendous — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- hotel-dieu — a hospital.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- house dick — house detective.
- housebound — restricted to the house, as by bad weather or illness.
- housedress — a relatively simple and inexpensive dress suitable for housework.
- households — Plural form of household.
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- houseproud — Alternative form of house-proud.
- huckstered — Simple past tense and past participle of huckster.
- huddleston — (Ernest Urban) Trevor, 1913–1998, English Anglican archbishop and antiapartheid activist in Africa.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
- humberside — a county in NE England. 1356 sq. mi. (3525 sq. km).
- humdingers — Plural form of humdinger.
- humdudgeon — an imaginary illness
- humic acid — a brown, melanin-tinted mixture of polymers, found in lignite, peat, and soils, where it acts as a cation exchange agent: used in drilling fluids and inks.
- humidified — to make humid.
- humidifier — a device for increasing the amount of water vapor in the air of a room or building, consisting of a container for water and a vaporizer.
- humidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humidify.
- humidistat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- humidities — Plural form of humidity.
- humiliated — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humouredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) In the manner of a specified kind of humour. See good-humouredly, bad-humouredly, ill-humouredly.