10-letter words containing h, u, i
- khitmutgar — (in India) a waiter.
- kieselguhr — diatomaceous earth.
- kitakyushu — a seaport on N Kyushu, in S Japan: formed in 1963 by the merger of five cities (Kokura, Moji, Tobata, Wakamatsu, and Yawata)
- kurdaitcha — (Australia) An aboriginal evil spirit; a sorcerer.
- languished — Simple past tense and past participle of languish.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- languishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of languish.
- lauderhill — a city in SE Florida: suburb of Fort Lauderdale.
- laugh line — crow's-foot (def 1).
- laughingly — With amused ridicule or ludicrous inappropriateness.
- launchings — Plural form of launching.
- leuchaemia — leukaemia
- light bulb — an electric light.
- light-duty — made or designed to withstand comparatively moderate loads, use, or stress: light-duty trucks.
- lightbulbs — Plural form of lightbulb.
- lighten up — be less serious
- lighthouse — a tower or other structure displaying or flashing a very bright light for the guidance of ships in avoiding dangerous areas, in following certain routes, etc.
- lights out — Chiefly Military. a signal, usually by drum or bugle, that all or certain camp or barracks lights are to be extinguished for the night.
- lights-out — Chiefly Military. a signal, usually by drum or bugle, that all or certain camp or barracks lights are to be extinguished for the night.
- lisianthus — Eustoma grandiflorum, now Eustoma exaltatum subsp. russellianum, a flowering plant.
- litchi nut — the brownish, dried litchi fruit.
- lithuanian — of or relating to Lithuania, its inhabitants, or their language.
- lithuresis — the passage of gravel in the urine.
- liu shaoqi — 1898–1973, Chinese Communist leader: head of state 1959–66.
- loudhailer — (British) A megaphone or bullhorn.
- louis heel — a French heel of medium height, flared out or widened at the base, used on women's shoes.
- lousy with — infested with lice.
- lubumbashi — a province in the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo: important mining area. 191,878 sq. mi. (496,964 sq. km). Capital: Lubumbashi.
- lumpfishes — Plural form of lumpfish.
- lunch-pail — lunchbox.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- lungfishes — Plural form of lungfish.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- machinegun — Alternative spelling of machine gun.
- maki-zushi — cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri-zushi) or formed into a long seaweed-wrapped roll, often around strips of vegetable or raw fish, and sliced into bite-size pieces (maki-zushi)
- makunouchi — a Japanese fast food dish consisting of fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables served with rice and an umeboshi
- 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.
- manchurian — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- manhunting — Organized searching for a criminal or enemy.
- manichaeus — Mani
- mclaughlin — John, born 1942, English jazz guitarist.
- mediumship — The state of being a medium (psychic conduit).
- medusafish — a stromateid fish, Icichthys lockingtoni, of deep waters off the coast of California, living as a commensal in and about medusas.
- mesohippus — any of a group of prehistoric horselike animals of the genus Mesohippus, which had three toes and which lived during the Oligocene epoch
- michurinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Ryazan.
- milk churn — a container used to transport milk from farms
- milk punch — a beverage containing milk and alcoholic liquor with sugar, flavoring, etc.
- minehunter — a naval vessel that searches for mines by electronic means
- mirthfully — In a mirthful manner.