11-letter words containing h, u, i
- herpesvirus — a DNA-containing virus of the family Herpesviridae, certain members of which cause such diseases in humans as oral and genital herpes, infectious mononucleosis, chickenpox, and shingles.
- hesperidium — the fruit of a citrus plant, as an orange.
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hiccoughing — Present participle of hiccough.
- hideousness — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
- high church — pertaining to the view or practice in the Anglican church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition, especially in adherence to sacraments, rituals, and obedience to church authority.
- high colour — (hardware) A colour depth of 16 (or 15) bits per pixel. Compare true colour.
- high fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority: The candidate has claimed the moral high ground.
- high jumper — a participant in the high jump.
- high summer — High summer is the middle of summer.
- high-strung — at great tension; highly excitable or nervous; edgy: high-strung nerves; a high-strung person.
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- highwrought — extremely worked-up or excited
- hilariously — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hills cloud — a hypothetical dense, disc-shaped area within the Oort cloud
- hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hip huggers — trousers that begin at the hips instead of the waist
- hip-huggers — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- hip-hugging — (of trousers) beginning at the hips instead of the waist
- hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
- hippocampus — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
- hippodamous — horse-taming
- hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
- hirsuteness — The characteristic of being hirsute; hairiness.
- hirsutulous — hirtellous.
- hispidulous — covered with stiff, short hairs.
- hit-and-run — guilty of fleeing the scene of an accident or injury one has caused, especially a vehicular accident, thereby attempting to evade being identified and held responsible: a hit-and-run driver.
- holluschick — a young male fur seal.
- holocaustic — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
- home equity — the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality: the equity of Solomon. Synonyms: disinterest, equitableness, impartiality, fair-mindedness, fairness, justness, evenhandedness, objectivity; justice, probity. Antonyms: bias, discrimination, inequity, injustice, partiality, partisanship, prejudice, unfairness, unreasonableness; injustice.
- home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- homoiousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence of the Son is similar to, but not the same as, that of the Father.
- homophilous — Homophilic.
- honey guide — any of several small, usually dull-colored birds of the family Indicatoridae, of Africa and southern Asia, certain species of which are noted for their habit of leading people or animals to nests of honeybees in order to feed on the honey, larvae, and wax of the nests after they have been broken open.
- hongshui he — a river in SW China, flowing SE to the Xiang Jiang. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- honorius ii — (Lamberto Scannabecchi) died 1130, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1124–30.
- honorius iv — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- honourarium — Nonstandard spelling of honorarium.
- hormigueros — a city in W Puerto Rico, S of Mayagüez.
- hormogonium — a portion of filament in blue-green algae that becomes detached and reproduces by cell division.
- horrisonous — sounding dreadful
- hot jupiter — any of a class of large, hot, gaseous planets similar to Jupiter in mass but outside our solar system.
- hot-tubbing — a wooden tub, usually large enough to accommodate several persons, that is filled with hot aerated water and often equipped with a thermostat and whirlpool: used for recreation or physical therapy and often placed out of doors, as on a porch.