11-letter words containing h, u, i
- loud-hailer — a portable loudspeaker having a built-in amplifier and microphone
- loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
- loutishness — The state or quality of being loutish, of behaving like a lout.
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucha libre — a form of freestyle wrestling originating in Mexico
- lüdenscheid — a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: manufacturing centre for aluminium and plastics. Pop: 79 829 (2003 est)
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lumber with — If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you.
- luminophore — a molecule or group of molecules that emits light when illuminated.
- lumpishness — The property of being lumpish.
- luskishness — the state or condition of being luskish
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- machine gun — automatic firearm
- machine-gun — to shoot at with a machine gun.
- machineguns — Plural form of machinegun.
- main gauche — a dagger of the 16th and 17th centuries, held in the left hand in dueling and used to parry the sword of an opponent.
- medium shot — a camera shot in which the subject is in the middle distance, permitting some of the background to be seen. Compare closeup (def 2), long shot (def 3).
- megatherium — An extinct giant ground sloth of the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in America, reaching a height of 16 feet (5 m) when standing erect.
- meliphagous — feeding on honey
- mesophilous — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- mesothelium — epithelium of mesodermal origin, which lines the body cavities.
- mesothorium — one of two radioactive decay products of thorium, an isotope of radium or actinium.
- metalithium — A heavy isotope of the simplest alkali metal, (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3 and containing 8 neutrons. Metalithium is an artificial isotope produced by bombarding Lithium 7 with neutrons. It is radioactive, with a half-life of 0.84 seconds.
- midas touch — the ability to turn any business venture one is associated with into an extremely profitable one.
- minus sight — a foresight used in leveling.
- minute hand — the hand that indicates the minutes on a clock or watch, usually longer than the hour hand.
- mischevious — Misconstruction of mischievous.
- mischievous — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- monchiquite — a type of rock made up of large crystals of, among other constituents, olivine and amphibole and which is found in an analcite groundmass
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- monorhinous — having a single, median nostril, as the cyclostomes.
- most-jutish — a member of a continental Germanic tribe, probably from Jutland, that invaded Britain in the 5th century a.d. and settled in Kent.
- moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- movie house — a motion-picture theater.
- mu'awiyah i — ?602–680 ad, first caliph (661–80) of the Omayyad dynasty of Damascus; regarded as having secularized the caliphate
- multiauthor — having numerous or many authors
- multichoice — Multiple-choice.
- multichrome — chromium.
- multiethnic — involving or pertaining to two or more distinct ethnic groups.
- multiheaded — having more than one head
- multihulled — (nautical) Having more than one hull.
- multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multiphoton — involving several photons
- multischeme — An implementation of Multilisp built on MIT's C-Scheme, for the BBN Butterfly.
- multitheism — The existence of multiple forms of theism, as in a society.
- multitheist — Of or pertaining to multitheism.
- mumpishness — the state or quality of being mumpish
- munich pact — the pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany on September 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipled appeasement of an aggressive nation.