11-letter words containing h, u
- get a laugh — If a person or their comment gets a laugh or raises a laugh, they make the people listening to them laugh.
- get shut of — to get rid of
- get through — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- glasshouses — Plural form of glasshouse.
- glaucophane — a sodium-rich monoclinic mineral of the amphibole family, usually metamorphic.
- glutathione — a crystalline, water-soluble peptide of glutamic acid, cysteine, and glycine, C 10 H 17 N 3 O 6 S, found in blood and in animal and plant tissues, and important in tissue oxidations and in the activation of some enzymes.
- go out with — date
- god help us — If you say God help us, you mean that you have negative feelings about the person or situation you are talking about.
- goddaughter — a female godchild.
- golden hour — the first hour after a serious accident, when it is crucial that the victim receives medical treatment in order to have a chance of surviving
- grand duchy — a territory ruled by a grand duke or grand duchess.
- grangemouth — a port in Scotland, in Falkirk council area: now Scotland's second port, with oil refineries, shipyards, and chemical industries. Pop: 17 771 (2001)
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- greenhouses — Plural form of greenhouse.
- grind house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grind-house — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
- ground itch — a disease of the skin of the feet, caused by penetration of hookworm larvae, characterized by a blisterlike eruption and itching.
- ground-fish — bottom-fish.
- groundcloth — A groundcloth is a piece of waterproof material which you put on the ground to sleep on when you are camping.
- groundshare — to share the facilities and running costs of a single stadium with another team
- groundsheet — a waterproof sheet of plastic, canvas, or other durable material spread on the ground, as under a sleeping bag or in a tent, for protection against moisture.
- growth fund — a mutual fund that invests primarily in growth stocks.
- guardhouses — Plural form of guardhouse.
- guest house — small hotel
- guest night — an evening when members of an institution are allowed to bring guests
- guesthouses — Plural form of guesthouse.
- guide right — a command to a marching formation to align itself with a guide marching at the right side of the formation.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gunfighting — Combat with guns.
- gunsmithing — The craft of a gunsmith.
- guru granth — the sacred scripture of the Sikhs, believed by them to be the embodiment of the gurus
- gymnanthous — achlamydeous.
- habituating — Present participle of habituate.
- habituation — the act of habituating.
- hack around — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- hacking run — (jargon) (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
- hadrosaurid — (zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.
- haemolutein — (obsolete) bilirubin.
- hair colour — the colour or shade of someone's hair
- hair-curler — a cylindrical device, usually electronic and heated, used to curl the hair
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-bushel — a unit of dry measure equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
- half-duplex — of or relating to the transmission of information in opposite directions but not simultaneously.
- half-hunter — a watch with a hinged lid in which a small circular opening or crystal allows the approximate time to be read
- half-minute — 30 seconds
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.