7-letter words containing h, u
- pachuco — (especially among Mexican-Americans) a teenage youth who belongs to a street gang known for its flamboyant style.
- paducah — a city in W Kentucky, at the junction of the Tennessee and Ohio rivers.
- pahouin — Fang (def 1).
- pai-hua — a colloquial form of written Chinese based on the spoken language, in use especially since 1917.
- pashtun — of or relating to the Pashto-speaking people of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan
- paunchy — having a large and protruding belly; potbellied: a paunchy middle-aged man.
- penuche — Also, panocha. Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. a fudgelike candy made of brown sugar, butter, and milk, usually with nuts.
- phallus — an image of the male reproductive organ, especially that carried in procession in ancient festivals of Dionysus, or Bacchus, symbolizing the generative power in nature.
- phineus — a brother of Cepheus who was not brave enough to rescue his betrothed Andromeda from a sea monster and who was eventually turned to stone.
- phoebus — Classical Mythology. Apollo as the sun god.
- photius — a.d. c820–891, patriarch of Constantinople 858–867, 877–882.
- phrixus — a child who escaped on the back of a ram with his sister Helle from a plot against them. The fleece of the ram, which he sacrificed, was the Golden Fleece.
- phugoid — of or relating to long-period oscillation in the longitudinal motion of an aircraft, rocket, or missile.
- pithful — full of pith; pithy; succinct
- pouched — having a pouch, as the pelicans, gophers, and marsupials.
- pouches — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- prudish — excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.
- publish — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- puckish — mischievous; impish.
- punakha — a town in W central Bhutan: a former capital of the country
- punched — a tool or machine for perforating or stamping materials, driving nails, etc.
- puncher — a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
- punches — the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.
- pupfish — any of several tiny, stout killifishes of the genus Cyprinodon, inhabiting marshy waters in arid areas of western North America: several species are endangered.
- pupunha — the palm Bactris gasipaes, cultivated in tropical America; its large red and orange fruit, which is edible when cooked
- purbach — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 75 miles (120 km) in diameter.
- purchas — Samuel, 1575?–1626, English writer and editor of travel books.
- purusha — (in Sankhya and Yoga) one's true self, regarded as eternal and unaffected by external happenings.
- push in — (of a crime) accomplished by waiting until a victim has unlocked or opened the door before making a forced entry.
- push on — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- push-in — (of a crime) accomplished by waiting until a victim has unlocked or opened the door before making a forced entry.
- push-up — an exercise in which a person, keeping a prone position with the hands palms down under the shoulders, the balls of the feet on the ground, and the back straight, pushes the body up and lets it down by an alternate straightening and bending of the arms.
- pushful — self-assertive and aggressive; pushing.
- pushing — that pushes.
- pushkin — Alexander Sergeevich [al-ig-zan-der sur-gey-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr syir-gye-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1799–1837, Russian poet, short-story writer, and dramatist.
- pushout — throwaway (def 5).
- pushpin — a short pin having a spool-shaped head of plastic, glass, or metal, used for affixing material to a bulletin board, wall, or the like.
- pushpit — a safety rail at the stern of a boat
- pushrod — a rod in an overhead-valve engine that is part of the linkage used to open and close the valves.
- pushtos — Pashto.
- putcher — a trap for catching salmon
- pyrrhus — c318–272 b.c, king of Epirus c300–272.
- pythium — a genus of parasitic oomycotes, most of which are plant parasites
- quahaug — An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, Venus mercenaria.
- quahogs — Plural form of quahog.
- quamash — camass.
- quamish — queasy; having an upset stomach; qualmish.
- quashed — to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
- quashee — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- quasher — someone who quells or suppresses