10-letter words containing h, u, m
- galumphing — to move along heavily and clumsily.
- glochidium — glochid.
- gnaphalium — Any of the genus Gnaphalium of flowering plants, the cudweeds.
- go much on — to approve of or be in agreement with (something): usually used in the negative
- goalmouths — Plural form of goalmouth.
- good humor — a cheerful or amiable mood.
- group home — a substitute home, usually located in a residential neighborhood, providing foster care for orphans, delinquents, disabled persons, or others with special needs.
- guggenheim — Daniel, 1856–1930, U.S. industrialist and philanthropist.
- gumshoeing — Present participle of gumshoe.
- hadhramaut — a region along the S coast of the Arabian peninsula, in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
- haemagogue — promoting the flow of blood
- haematuria — Alternative spelling of hematuria.
- half-human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- ham sth up — If actors or actresses ham it up, they exaggerate every emotion and gesture when they are acting, often deliberately because they think that the audience will be more amused.
- hamburgers — Plural form of hamburger.
- hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
- hammer out — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
- hand-me-up — something, such as an item of electronic equipment, that is passed from a younger to an older member of a family
- harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniums — Plural form of harmonium.
- harrumphed — to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner: The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.
- harrumpher — (informal) One who complains or moralizes.
- haustellum — (in certain crustaceans and insects) an organ or part of the proboscis adapted for sucking blood or plant juices.
- haustorium — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- haut monde — high society.
- hemelytrum — the anterior wing of some insects such as earwigs
- hemizygous — an individual having only one of a given pair of genes.
- hemophilus — a genus of rod-shaped, parasitic, hemophilic bacteria, certain species of which, as H. influenzae or H. suis, are pathogenic for humans and animals.
- herbariums — Plural form of herbarium.
- hexamerous — consisting of or divided into six parts.
- hieronymus — Eusebius [yoo-see-bee-uh s] /yuˈsi bi əs/ (Show IPA), Jerome, Saint.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- hologamous — of or relating to an organism having reproductive cells similar in size and structure to the somatic cells.
- home guard — a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
- home ruler — an advocate of home rule.
- home study — instruction in a subject given by mail and addressed to a student's home.
- home truth — an indisputable fact or basic truth, especially one whose accuracy may cause discomfort or embarrassment.
- home-built — built at home
- homebuyers — Plural form of homebuyer.
- homoecious — designating or of parasites that spend their entire life cycle on one species of host
- homogamous — Botany. having flowers or florets that do not differ sexually (opposed to heterogamous). having the stamens and pistils maturing simultaneously (opposed to dichogamous).
- homogenous — Biology. corresponding in structure because of a common origin.
- homogonous — pertaining to monoclinous flowers that do not differ in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to heterogonous).
- homoiousia — The doctrine of the homoiousians.
- homologous — having the same or a similar relation; corresponding, as in relative position or structure.
- homologues — Plural form of homologue.
- homonymous — of the nature of homonyms; having the same name.
- homoousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence or substance of the Father and the Son is the same (opposed to Heteroousian).
- homosexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.