14-letter words containing h, u, i
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- english muffin — crumpet
- english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
- enthusiastical — (obsolete) enthusiastic.
- ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
- euphoniousness — The quality or state of being euphonious.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- euphuistically — In a euphuistic manner.
- eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
- exhaustibility — The property of being exhaustible.
- exhaustiveness — The state of being exhaustive.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
- extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
- face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- feng yu-hsiang — ("Christian General") 1880–1948, Chinese general.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- figure-hugging — Figure-hugging clothes fit very close to the body of the person who is wearing them. Figure-hugging is usually used to describe clothes worn by women.
- fishing ground — a part of a body of water where the fishing is usually good.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- four-eyed fish — a small, surface-swimming fish, Anableps anableps, inhabiting shallow, muddy streams of Mexico and Central America, having each eye divided, with the upper half adapted for seeing in air and the lower half for seeing in water.
- full-fashioned — knitted to conform to the shape of a body part, as of the foot or leg: full-fashioned hosiery.
- function shift — a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
- funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- garlic crusher — a kitchen implement used to crush cloves of garlic
- garrison house — a style of early New England house in which the second floor projects beyond the first.
- gemuetlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
- get funny with — to be impudent to
- go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
- gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
- group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
- guangxi zhuang — an administrative division in S China. 85,096 sq. mi. (220,399 sq. km). Capital: Nanning.
- gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- haemagglutinin — Alternative spelling of hemagglutinin.
- hague tribunal — the court of arbitration for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, established at The Hague by the international peace conference of 1899: its panel of jurists nominates a list of persons from which members of the United Nations International Court of Justice are elected.
- haight-ashbury — a district of San Francisco, in the central part of the city: a center for hippies and the drug culture in the 1960s.
- half-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
- hallucinogenic — producing hallucinations: a hallucinogenic drug.
- harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.