11-letter words containing h, u, d
- heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
- heedfulness — The state or quality of being heedful.
- hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- hereinunder — In and under this (of a clause to follow later in a document, etc.).
- hesperidium — the fruit of a citrus plant, as an orange.
- hideousness — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority: The candidate has claimed the moral high ground.
- hills cloud — a hypothetical dense, disc-shaped area within the Oort cloud
- hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hippodamous — horse-taming
- hispidulous — covered with stiff, short hairs.
- hit-and-run — guilty of fleeing the scene of an accident or injury one has caused, especially a vehicular accident, thereby attempting to evade being identified and held responsible: a hit-and-run driver.
- hold button — a button on a telephone that enables someone to interrupt an incoming call temporarily in order to answer another call.
- hold out on — to delay in or keep from telling (a person) some new or important information
- home ground — an area, locality, or subject with which one is intimately familiar: When you see those familiar mountains appear on the horizon, you'll know you are back on home ground. Baseball and football are home ground for this sports-loving community.
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- honey guide — any of several small, usually dull-colored birds of the family Indicatoridae, of Africa and southern Asia, certain species of which are noted for their habit of leading people or animals to nests of honeybees in order to feed on the honey, larvae, and wax of the nests after they have been broken open.
- honor bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- honor guard — guard of honor.
- honor-bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- horned pout — a bullhead, especially the brown bullhead.
- horse guard — a black and yellow sand wasp, Bembix carolina, of the southern U.S., preying on flies that gather around horses and cattle.
- houndstooth — woven or printed with a pattern of broken or jagged checks: a hound's-tooth jacket.
- houppelande — (in the Middle Ages) a robe or long tunic, belted or with a fitted bodice, usually having full trailing sleeves and often trimmed or lined with fur.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- house-proud — taking pride in one's house and housekeeping.
- householder — a person who holds title to or occupies a house.
- householdry — (archaic) The management and upkeep of a household.
- houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
- hpcode-plus — A descendant of HPcode with data types, developed to be an ANDF language.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hudson seal — muskrat fur that has been plucked and dyed to give the appearance of seal.
- hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
- hull girder — the theoretical box girder formed by the continuous longitudinal members of the hull of a ship, providing resistance to hogging and sagging.
- hum and haw — If you hem and haw, or in British English hum and haw, you take a long time to say something because you cannot think of the right words, or because you are not sure what to say.
- humidifiers — Plural form of humidifier.
- humidifying — Present participle of humidify.
- humidistats — Plural form of humidistat.
- hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hunchbacked — humpbacked.
- hundredfold — a hundred times as great or as much.
- hunker down — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hurdle race — a race in which people have to jump over a number of obstacles while running
- hurdle rate — the rate of return that a proposed project must provide if it is to be worth considering: usually calculated as the cost of the capital involved adjusted by a risk factor
- hurdy-gurdy — a barrel organ or similar musical instrument played by turning a crank.
- hurriedness — The state of being hurried.