10-letter words containing h, u, i
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- parachutic — involving a parachute
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- phyllodium — phyllode.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pincushion — a small cushion into which pins are stuck until needed.
- pious hope — a wish or desire that is unlikely to be fulfilled
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- plus sight — a backsight used in leveling.
- plushiness — the condition of being plush
- prepublish — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- promethium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element. Symbol: Pm; atomic number: 61.
- pubic hair — hair growing in genital area
- publishers — a publishing company
- publishing — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- punch line — the climactic phrase or sentence in a joke, speech, advertisement, or humorous story that produces the desired effect.
- punch list — a list of unfinished matters that require attention.
- punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
- punishment — the act of punishing.
- purchasing — buying
- pursership — the position of purser
- 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 aside — shove to one side
- push media — (messaging) A model of media distribution where items of content are sent to the user (viewer, listener, etc.) in a sequence, and at a rate, determined by a server to which the user has connected. This contrasts with pull media where the user requests each item individually. Push media usually entail some notion of a "channel" which the user selects and which delivers a particular kind of content. Broadcast television is (for the most part) the prototypical example of push media: you turn on the TV set, select a channel and shows and commercials stream out until you turn the set off. By contrast, the web is (mostly) the prototypical example of pull media: each "page", each bit of content, comes to the user only if he requests it; put down the keyboard and the mouse, and everything stops. At the time of writing (April 1997), much effort is being put into blurring the line between push media and pull media. Most of this is aimed at bringing more push media to the Internet, mainly as a way to disseminate advertising, since telling people about products they didn't know they wanted is very difficult in a strict pull media model. These emergent forms of push media are generally variations on targeted advertising mixed in with bits of useful content. "At home on your computer, the same system will run soothing screensavers underneath regular news flashes, all while keeping track, in one corner, of press releases from companies whose stocks you own. With frequent commercial messages, of course." (Wired, March 1997, page 12). As part of the eternal desire to apply a fun new words to boring old things, "push" is occasionally used to mean nothing more than email spam.
- pussy-whip — (of a woman) to dominate or control (a romantic partner); henpeck.
- quackishly — In a quackish manner.
- quad right — (in computer typesetting) flush right.
- qualmishly — In a qualmish manner.
- queer fish — strange person
- quickhatch — a wolverine.
- quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
- re-hauling — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
- redruthite — an important dark-grey or black copper ore mineral which is a sulphide
- rehumanize — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- relinquish — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rheumatism — any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
- rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
- rhinovirus — any of a varied and widespread group of picornaviruses responsible for many respiratory diseases, including the common cold.
- rhoicissus — any plant of the climbing genus Rhoicissus, related to and resembling cissus, esp R. rhomboidea (grape ivy), grown for its shiny evergreen foliage: family Vitaceae
- rhumb line — a curve on the surface of a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle. It is the path taken by a vessel or aircraft that maintains a constant compass direction.
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- rightfully — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- rough fish — any fish that is not valued as a sport fish or considered a significant source of food by sport fishers.