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11-letter words containing h, u, i

  • rubbish bin — trash can
  • rubbish tip — dump for refuse
  • rudesheimer — any of the Rheingau wines from the vineyards near Rüdesheim, a town on the Rhine River in W Germany.
  • rugby shirt — a knitted pullover sport shirt usually in bold horizontal stripes and having a white collar and neckline placket, styled after the shirts traditionally worn by the members of Rugby teams.
  • rush family — the plant family Juncaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having narrow, grasslike leaves, small and greenish flowers, and capsular fruit with three compartments, comprising the true rushes.
  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • saurischian — any herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur of the order Saurischia, having a three-pronged pelvis resembling that of a crocodile. Compare ornithischian.
  • schizanthus — any of several plants of the genus Schizanthus, native to Chile, having numerous variously colored flowers resembling small orchids.
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • schuschniggKurt von [kurt von;; German koort fuh n] /kɜrt vɒn;; German kurt fən/ (Show IPA) (1897–1977), Austrian statesman in the U.S.: Chancellor of Austria 1934–38.
  • schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
  • semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
  • shanhaiguan — a city in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Gulf of Liaodong: strategically located at the E end of the Great Wall.
  • share issue — When there is a share issue, shares in a company are made available for people to buy.
  • sheet music — music printed on unbound sheets of paper.
  • shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • showjumping — horseriding event
  • shroud-laid — noting a fiber rope of four strands laid right-handed with or without a heart.
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • shrubberied — having a shrubbery
  • shufflingly — in the manner of a shuffle
  • shunamitism — the rejuvenation of an old man by sleeping with a young woman, although not necessarily having sex with her
  • shuttlewise — in the manner of a shuttle (i.e. back and forth)
  • silhouetted — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • single-hung — (of a window) having two sashes, only one of which is movable.
  • sit through — endure the whole of
  • solid south — the states of the southern U.S. that traditionally supported the Democratic Party after the Civil War.
  • sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
  • south miami — a town in S Florida.
  • south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
  • southernize — to make or become southern
  • southington — a town in central Connecticut.
  • sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
  • springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
  • spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
  • square inch — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. 2 , sq. in. Abbreviation: in.
  • square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • squirearchy — the collective body of squires or landed gentry of a country.
  • squishiness — soft and wet: The ground was squishy from the rain.
  • straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • straight-up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • studentship — the state or condition of being a student.
  • sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
  • sub-heading — a title or heading of a subdivision, as in a chapter, essay, or newspaper article.
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
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