11-letter words containing h, u, i
- grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- ground itch — a disease of the skin of the feet, caused by penetration of hookworm larvae, characterized by a blisterlike eruption and itching.
- ground-fish — bottom-fish.
- guest night — an evening when members of an institution are allowed to bring guests
- guide right — a command to a marching formation to align itself with a guide marching at the right side of the formation.
- gunfighting — Combat with guns.
- gunsmithing — The craft of a gunsmith.
- habituating — Present participle of habituate.
- habituation — the act of habituating.
- hacking run — (jargon) (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
- hadrosaurid — (zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.
- haemolutein — (obsolete) bilirubin.
- hair colour — the colour or shade of someone's hair
- hair-curler — a cylindrical device, usually electronic and heated, used to curl the hair
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-minute — 30 seconds
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- hallucinant — a person who experiences hallucinations
- hallucinate — to have hallucinations.
- han fei-tzu — died 233 b.c, Chinese philosopher and legal theorist.
- handcuffing — Present participle of handcuff.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
- hard liquor — spirits, alcoholic drink
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- harrumphing — Present participle of harrumph.
- haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- haughtiness — disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
- haute-loire — a department in central France. 1931 sq. mi. (5000 sq. km). Capital: Le Puy.
- haute-piece — a standing flange fixed to or formed on a pauldron as a protection for one side of the neck.
- have issues — If someone has issues with a particular aspect of their life, they have problems connected with it.
- have it out — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- head injury — wound to the head
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- headhunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- heinousness — The property of being heinous.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- heliculture — the science or occupation of raising snails for food.
- helminthous — having intestinal worms
- hemicyclium — a sundial in the form of a concave quarter sphere having a rodlike gnomon lying within one radius and marked on its surface with arcs that lie in the same plane as the gnomon.
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- herbivorous — feeding on plants.
- hereinunder — In and under this (of a clause to follow later in a document, etc.).
- hermeneutic — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- heroin user — a person who regularly takes the drug heroin, who may or may not be addicted to it