11-letter words containing h, u, i
- hour circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the celestial poles and containing a point on the celestial sphere, as a star or the vernal equinox.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- house music — an up-tempo style of disco music characterized by deep bass rhythms, piano or synthesizer melodies, and soul-music singing, sometimes with elements of rap music.
- house white — a white wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- house-train — to housebreak.
- houselights — (plural only) The lights that illuminate the audience section of an auditorium or theatre.
- housesitter — Alternative spelling of house-sitter.
- housewifely — of, like, or befitting a housewife.
- housewifery — the function or work of a housewife; housekeeping.
- hsuan chiao — Taoism (def 2).
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hucksterish — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- huffishness — The quality of being huffish.
- huitlacoche — Corn smut prepared as a delicacy.
- hull girder — the theoretical box girder formed by the continuous longitudinal members of the hull of a ship, providing resistance to hogging and sagging.
- human being — any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
- humectation — A moistening.
- humidifiers — Plural form of humidifier.
- humidifying — Present participle of humidify.
- humidistats — Plural form of humidistat.
- humiliating — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- humiliative — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humming top — a top that hums as it spins
- hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
- humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hurriedness — The state of being hurried.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- husking bee — a gathering of farm families or friends to husk corn, usually as part of a celebration or party.
- hydroxonium — (chemistry) The cation obtained by reacting a proton with water - H3O+; hydronium.
- hyperacuity — an extreme acuteness (of the senses)
- hyperacusis — (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds.
- hyperimmune — protected from a disease or the like, as by inoculation.
- hyphopodium — (in a fungus) a specialized hyphal branch, composed of one or two usually lobed cells, serving for attachment and for the absorption of food.
- hyponitrous — of or derived from hyponitrous acid.
- hyponychium — (anatomy) The thickened epithelium beneath a nail or claw.
- hyposulfite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- hypothecium — the layer of hyphal tissue directly beneath the hymenium of an apothecium.
- ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
- ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
- ichthyosaur — any fishlike marine reptile of the extinct order Ichthyosauria, ranging from 4 to 40 feet (1.2 to 12 meters) in length and having a round, tapering body, a large head, four paddlelike flippers, and a vertical caudal fin.
- in no hurry — If you are in no hurry to do something, you are very unwilling to do it.
- in the buff — naked
- in the club — pregnant
- in the hunt — If a team or competitor is in the hunt for something, they still have a chance of winning it.
- in the lump — in the mass or aggregate; all together
- in the nude — naked