10-letter words containing h, u, s
- chylaceous — of or resembling chyle.
- cliquishly — In a cliquish manner.
- club-house — a building or room occupied by a club.
- clubhouses — Plural form of clubhouse.
- co-publish — to publish (something) with another person or company
- colchicums — Plural form of colchicum.
- colourwash — a coloured distemper
- consulship — an official appointed by the government of one country to look after its commercial interests and the welfare of its citizens in another country.
- coonhounds — Plural form of coonhound.
- coquettish — If you describe a woman as coquettish, you mean she acts in a playful way that is intended to make men find her attractive.
- corn shuck — the husk of an ear of maize
- cornhusker — a person or machine that strips cornhusks from ears of maize
- coryphaeus — (in ancient Greek drama) the leader of the chorus
- couch-surf — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
- couchettes — Plural form of couchette.
- countryish — similar to that which is typical of country music
- court shoe — Court shoes are women's shoes that do not cover the top part of the foot and are usually made of plain leather with no design.
- courthouse — A courthouse is a building in which a court of law meets.
- courtships — Plural form of courtship.
- cousinhood — Relationship as of cousins.
- cousinship — Also called first cousin, full cousin. the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt. See also second cousin, removed (def 2).
- crackhouse — a place where cocaine in the form of crack is bought, sold, and smoked.
- cruikshank — George. 1792–1878, English illustrator and caricaturist
- crunchings — any actions in which things are crunched
- crush zone — The crush zone is the part of a vehicle's bodywork that is designed to absorb the energy in a crash, reducing the amount that is felt by passengers inside the vehicle.
- crushingly — You can use crushingly to emphasize the degree of a negative quality.
- crushproof — unable to be crushed or creased
- crutchings — the wool clipped from a sheep's hindquarters
- cryophorus — a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation
- cubbyholes — Plural form of cubbyhole.
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cushioning — Cushioning is something soft that protects an object when it hits something.
- cut a dash — If you say that someone cuts a dash, you mean that they have an attractively stylish appearance or a rather bold manner.
- cutthroats — Plural form of cutthroat.
- cuttlefish — A cuttlefish is a sea animal that has a soft body and a hard shell inside.
- dachshunds — Plural form of dachshund.
- dairyhouse — A farm building operating as a dairy.
- daisy bush — any of various shrubs of the genus Olearia, of Australia and New Zealand, with daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- dauphiness — dauphine.
- dauphinois — (of potatoes or other vegetables) sliced and cooked in milk, typically with a topping of cheese.
- debauchees — Plural form of debauchee.
- deckhouses — Plural form of deckhouse.
- deep south — The Deep South consists of the states that are furthest south in the United States.
- deerhounds — Plural form of deerhound.
- dehumanise — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
- diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- diophantus — 3rd century ad, Greek mathematician, noted for his treatise on the theory of numbers, Arithmetica