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10-letter words containing h, u, i

  • behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
  • bhavabhuti — flourished 8th century, Indian dramatist.
  • bigmouthed — having a very large mouth.
  • bismuthine — an unstable hydride of bismuth, BiH 3 , analogous to arsine and stibine.
  • bismuthous — of or containing bismuth in the trivalent state
  • bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
  • bisulphide — a disulfide.
  • bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
  • bitou bush — type of sprawling woody shrub
  • blue shift — a shift toward shorter wavelengths of the spectral lines of a celestial object, caused by the motion of the object toward the observer.
  • blush wine — any of certain wines similar in style to dry white wine although slightly pink in color: made like rosé from red-wine grapes, and often named by the grape's name preceded by “white,” as white zinfandel
  • bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
  • bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow
  • brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
  • brush fire — a fire in brushwood
  • brush-fire — limited in scope, area, or importance, as some labor disputes or local skirmishes.
  • buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
  • buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
  • buffoonish — resembling or in the manner of a buffoon
  • buggy whip — horsewhip
  • bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
  • bumpkinish — like a bumpkin
  • bunch pink — sweet william.
  • bunny hill — a nursery slope
  • burchfieldCharles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
  • bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
  • burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
  • bush basil — See under basil.
  • bush knife — a large heavy knife suitable for outdoor use
  • bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
  • bush shirt — bush jacket.
  • bushelling — alteration of clothes
  • butlership — the skills of a butler
  • butt hinge — a hinge made of two matching leaves, one recessed into a door and the other into the jamb so that they are in contact when the door is shut
  • butterfish — an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin
  • callithump — a noisy band or parade
  • carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France
  • cash audit — an audit confined to cash transactions for a prescribed period, for the purpose of determining the amount of cash on hand or on deposit in a bank.
  • catholicus — catholicos.
  • cavaquinho — A small, four-stringed guitar resembling a ukulele, popular in Brazil and Portugal.
  • chain pump — a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.
  • chain rule — a theorem that may be used in the differentiation of the function of a function. It states that du/dx = (du/dy)(dy/dx), where y is a function of x and u a function of y
  • chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
  • charcutier — a pork butcher.
  • charmonium — an elementary particle that contains an antiquark and a charm quark
  • chaucerian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer
  • chaudfroid — a sweet or savoury jellied sauce used to coat cold meat, chicken, etc
  • chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
  • chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
  • chelyuskin — Capenorthernmost point of Asia, on the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia
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