11-letter words containing h, u
- prepurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- preschedule — taking place ahead of schedule
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- pretty much — mostly
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- pseudophone — an instrument for producing illusory auditory localization by changing the relationship between the receptor and the actual direction of the sound.
- psychagogue — a necromancer
- publishable — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- publishment — publication.
- puckishness — the state of being puckish
- pukka sahib — (in British India) a term of respectful address used to British colonial authorities.
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- pull hitter — a batter who tends to hit the ball to the same side of the field as that on which he or she stands at home plate.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- punch press — a power-driven machine used to cut, draw, or otherwise shape material, especially metal sheets, with dies, under pressure or by heavy blows.
- punch spoon — a spoon having a pierced bowl and a barbed end for removing fruit, ice, etc., from punch.
- punch-drunk — (especially of a boxer) having cerebral concussion caused by repeated blows to the head and consequently exhibiting unsteadiness of gait, hand tremors, slow muscular movement, hesitant speech, and dulled mentality.
- punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
- puppet show — an entertainment, as a play or musical revue, in which the performers are puppets.
- purchasable — capable of being bought.
- purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
- purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
- pushfulness — the quality of being offensively assertive or forceful
- put on hold — suspend
- put through — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- put up with — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
- pythonesque — denoting a kind of humour that is absurd and unpredictable; zany; surreal
- qinhuangdao — a seaport in NE Hebei province, in NE China, on the Bohai.
- quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quail-brush — a salt-tolerant, silvery gray shrub, Atriplex lentiformis breweri, of the amaranth family, native to southern California.
- quasi-happy — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
- quechumaran — a proposed language stock comprising Quechua and Aymara
- quick march — a march in quick time.
- quick-hatch — a wolverine.
- quick-march — a march in quick time.
- quinhydrone — a dark green, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 1 2 H 1 0 O 4 , used in solution, together with a platinum wire, as an electrode (quinhy·drone elec·trode)
- quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
- quonset hut — A Quonset hut is a military hut made of metal. The walls and roof form the shape of a semi-circle.
- quoteworthy — quotable.
- rabbitbrush — any of several composite shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having whitish, hairy branches and yellow flowers.