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11-letter words containing h, u

  • anti-church — a building for public Christian worship.
  • antihunting — opposed to hunters or hunting practices
  • antirrhinum — any scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Antirrhinum, esp the snapdragon, which have two-lipped flowers of various colours
  • apostrophus — a symbol resembling a reversed letter C used in Roman numerals to denote large numbers
  • aqualeather — a very strong type of leather made from the skin of the Nile perch (Lates niloticus)
  • archduchess — the wife or widow of an archduke
  • archduchies — Plural form of archduchy.
  • archdukedom — the territory ruled by an archduke or archduchess
  • archegonium — a female sex organ, occurring in mosses, spore-bearing vascular plants, and gymnosperms, that produces a single egg cell in its swollen base
  • archilochus — 7th century bc, Greek poet of Paros, notable for using his own experience as subject matter
  • aristarchus — a crater in the NE quadrant of the moon, having a diameter of about 37 kilometres, which is the brightest formation on the moon
  • arthur monk — (James) Arthur ("Art") born 1957, U.S. football player.
  • ashwaubenon — a town in E Wisconsin.
  • at the full — at the state or time of fullness
  • athermanous — capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation
  • audiophiles — Plural form of audiophile.
  • auditorship — the position or function of auditor
  • authentical — authentic.
  • authenticly — Alternative spelling of authentically.
  • authorcraft — the skilled ability of an author
  • authorising — Present participle of authorise.
  • authorities — the power to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise settle issues or disputes; jurisdiction; the right to control, command, or determine.
  • authorizing — Present participle of authorize.
  • autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
  • autochanger — a device in a record player or CD player that enables a small stack of records or CDs to be dropped automatically onto the turntable or player tray one at a time and played separately
  • autochthons — Plural form of autochthon.
  • autochthony — pertaining to autochthons; aboriginal; indigenous (opposed to heterochthonous).
  • autographed — Simple past tense and past participle of autograph.
  • autographic — of, for, or like an autograph or autographs
  • automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
  • autophagous — self-consuming or devouring of itself
  • autophanous — illuminated by a self-contained power source
  • autotheists — Plural form of autotheist.
  • autotrophic — (of organisms such as green plants) capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun
  • auxochromic — any radical or group of atoms that intensifies the color of a substance.
  • auxotrophic — designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme
  • azimuth bar — a device used in measuring azimuths, consisting of a bar with a sighting vane at each end,pivoted at its center, and rotating in a horizontal plane around the center of a compass.
  • azimuthally — Astronomy, Navigation. the arc of the horizon measured clockwise from the south point, in astronomy, or from the north point, in navigation, to the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon.
  • backdraught — a reverse movement of air, gas, or liquid
  • bad homburg — a city in W central Germany on the S slope of the Taunus Mountains, near Frankfurt.
  • badmouthing — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
  • baluchistan — a mountainous region of SW Asia, in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
  • barrelhouse — a cheap and disreputable drinking establishment
  • bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
  • bashibazouk — (in the 19th century) one of a group of irregular Turkish soldiers notorious for their brutality
  • bath tissue — toilet paper.
  • bathing hut — a small waterside building where swimmers can change their clothes
  • bathtub gin — homemade gin, especially gin made illegally during Prohibition.
  • bawdy house — a brothel.
  • bawdyhouses — Plural form of bawdyhouse.
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