10-letter words containing h, u, i
- hirudinean — any annelid worm of the class Hirudinea, comprising the leeches.
- hirudinoid — of, relating to, or resembling a leech.
- hirudinous — leech-like
- holodiscus — a genus of flowering deciduous shrubs of the family Rosaceae
- home-built — built at home
- homoecious — designating or of parasites that spend their entire life cycle on one species of host
- homoiousia — The doctrine of the homoiousians.
- homoousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence or substance of the Father and the Son is the same (opposed to Heteroousian).
- 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
- honorarium — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
- honorius i — died a.d. 638, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 625–638.
- hoodlumish — like a hoodlum
- hoodlumism — Behavior characteristic of a hoodlum.
- horologium — a building supporting or containing a timepiece, as a clock tower.
- hotel-dieu — a hospital.
- hothousing — Present participle of hothouse.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- housatonic — a river flowing S from NW Massachusetts through SW Connecticut to Long Island Sound near Stratford, Connecticut. 148 miles (240 km) long.
- house dick — house detective.
- house wine — a wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- houseflies — Plural form of housefly.
- houselight — One of the lights in an auditorium.
- houselling — administration of the Eucharist
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- housewifey — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a housewife.
- housewives — Plural form of housewife.
- houstonian — a native or resident of Houston, Texas.
- houstonias — Plural form of houstonia.
- hsin hsueh — School of Mind.
- hu han-min — 1879–1936, Chinese nationalist revolutionary.
- huebnerite — a reddish-brown mineral of the wolframite group, manganese tungstate, MnWO 4 , a minor ore of tungsten.
- hula skirt — a skirt made of long stems of grass bound to a waistband, worn typically by a Hawaiian hula dancer.
- humaniform — Like a human or that of a human in form, seeming, or appearance.
- humanising — Present participle of humanise.
- humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humanities — all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.
- humanizing — Present participle of humanize.
- humberside — a county in NE England. 1356 sq. mi. (3525 sq. km).
- humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- humblingly — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humbugging — Present participle of humbug.
- humdingers — Plural form of humdinger.
- humgruffin — a terrible or repulsive person
- 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.
- humicolous — of or relating to organisms that live in or on soil.
- 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.