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.