11-letter words containing h, u
- headhunters — Plural form of headhunter.
- headhunting — a headhunting expedition: The men left the village to go on a headhunt.
- headquarter — to situate in headquarters.
- health club — a usually private club that offers its members facilities for exercising and physical conditioning.
- healthfully — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- heartstruck — Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
- heat source — sth that generates warmth
- heater plug — one of usually four plugs fitted to the cylinder block of a diesel engine that warms the engine chamber to facilitate starting in cold weather
- heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
- hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
- hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
- heedfulness — The state or quality of being heedful.
- heinousness — The property of being heinous.
- helichrysum — any of the numerous composite plants of the genus Helichrysum, having alternate leaves and solitary or clustered flower heads, including the strawflower.
- heliculture — the science or occupation of raising snails for food.
- hell around — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- helminthous — having intestinal worms
- helmut kohl — Helmut [hel-moo t] /ˈhɛl mʊt/ (Show IPA), born 1930, German political leader: chancellor of West Germany (1982–90); chancellor of Germany 1990–98.
- helpfulness — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- hemicyclium — a sundial in the form of a concave quarter sphere having a rodlike gnomon lying within one radius and marked on its surface with arcs that lie in the same plane as the gnomon.
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- heptagynous — (of a flower) having seven pistils
- heptamerous — consisting of or divided into seven parts.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heptangular — having seven angles.
- herbivorous — feeding on plants.
- hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
- herculaneum — an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
- hereinunder — In and under this (of a clause to follow later in a document, etc.).
- hermeneutic — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- hermoupolis — a port in Greece, capital of Cyclades department, on the E coast of Syros Island. Pop: (municipality): 13 496 (2001)
- heroin user — a person who regularly takes the drug heroin, who may or may not be addicted to it
- herpesvirus — a DNA-containing virus of the family Herpesviridae, certain members of which cause such diseases in humans as oral and genital herpes, infectious mononucleosis, chickenpox, and shingles.
- hertzsprung — Ejnar (ˈəɪnar). 1873–1967, Danish astronomer: he discovered the existence of giant and dwarf stars, originating one form of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- hesperidium — the fruit of a citrus plant, as an orange.
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- heuristical — Of or pertaining to heuristics.
- hexyl group — any of five univalent, isomeric groups having the formula C 6 H 13 −.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hiccoughing — Present participle of hiccough.
- hideousness — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hierurgical — of or relating to sacred rites
- high church — pertaining to the view or practice in the Anglican church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition, especially in adherence to sacraments, rituals, and obedience to church authority.
- high colour — (hardware) A colour depth of 16 (or 15) bits per pixel. Compare true colour.
- high fulham — a die loaded at one corner either to favor a throw of 4, 5, or 6 (high fulham) or to favor a throw of 1, 2, or 3 (low fulham)
- high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority: The candidate has claimed the moral high ground.
- high jumper — a participant in the high jump.
- high summer — High summer is the middle of summer.
- high-strung — at great tension; highly excitable or nervous; edgy: high-strung nerves; a high-strung person.
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.