11-letter words containing h, u, n, d, r
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- hereinunder — In and under this (of a clause to follow later in a document, etc.).
- high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority: The candidate has claimed the moral high ground.
- hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- 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.
- home ground — an area, locality, or subject with which one is intimately familiar: When you see those familiar mountains appear on the horizon, you'll know you are back on home ground. Baseball and football are home ground for this sports-loving community.
- honor bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- honor guard — guard of honor.
- honor-bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- horned pout — a bullhead, especially the brown bullhead.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- houselander — Caryll [kar-uh l] /ˈkær əl/ (Show IPA), 1901–54, English writer on Roman Catholicism.
- hue and cry — Early English Law. the pursuit of a felon or an offender with loud outcries or clamor to give an alarm.
- 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.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hundredfold — a hundred times as great or as much.
- hunker down — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hurriedness — The state of being hurried.
- hydrogenous — of or containing hydrogen.
- hydroxonium — (chemistry) The cation obtained by reacting a proton with water - H3O+; hydronium.
- lindenhurst — a village on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- murder hunt — a search for a murderer
- north-bound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
- otter hound — one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
- punch-drunk — (especially of a boxer) having cerebral concussion caused by repeated blows to the head and consequently exhibiting unsteadiness of gait, hand tremors, slow muscular movement, hesitant speech, and dulled mentality.
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quinhydrone — a dark green, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 1 2 H 1 0 O 4 , used in solution, together with a platinum wire, as an electrode (quinhy·drone elec·trode)
- rajahmundry — a city in Andhra Pradesh state, SE India, on the Godavari River.
- roundarched — having semicircular arches
- roundheaded — (of a person) possessing a round head; brachycephalic.
- rush candle — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- shootaround — an informal match or practice session
- shop around — compare prices
- show around — guide round a new place
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- southlander — a person from the south
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- sundry shop — (in Malaysia) a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese foodstuffs
- superharden — harden (def 6).
- sure-handed — using the hands with skill and confidence; dexterous.
- thunder bay — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
- thunder egg — a globular concretion of opal, agate, or chalcedony weathered out of tuff or basalt.
- thunder mug — a chamber pot.
- thunderbird — (in the mythology of some North American Indians) a huge, eaglelike bird capable of producing thunder, lightning, and rain.
- thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.