7-letter words containing h, u
- hauteur — haughty manner or spirit; arrogance.
- hautpas — A raised part of the floor of a large room; a dais or platform for a raised table or throne.
- have up — to cause to appear for trial
- haviour — (obsolete) Demeanour, behaviour, comportment.
- havurah — a Jewish fellowship, especially an informal one that meets regularly for discussion or prayer.
- hawbuck — a country bumpkin
- head up — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- headful — A quantity sufficient to cover the head.
- heal up — When an injury heals up, it becomes completely healthy again.
- healful — Tending or serving to heal; health-promoting; healing.
- heat up — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- heckuva — (colloquial) Heck of a; extreme.
- heedful — taking heed; attentive; mindful; thoughtful; careful: She was always heedful of others' needs.
- hegumen — the head of a monastery.
- heinous — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- helibus — a helicopter with the capacity to carry many passengers
- helluva — (colloquial) hell of a; extreme.
- helpful — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- hen run — an enclosure for hens, esp one made of chicken wire
- hepburn — Audrey, 1929–93, U.S. actress, born in Belgium.
- herault — a department in S France. 2403 sq. mi. (6225 sq. km). Capital: Montpellier.
- herbous — Of or relating to herbs; herbaceous.
- hereout — (obsolete) Out of this.
- herisau — a demicanton in NE Switzerland: Protestant. 94 sq. mi. (245 sq. km). Capital: Herisau.
- heurism — the educational principle of acquiring knowledge through empirical study and practical experience
- heyduck — one of a class of mercenary soldiers in 16th-century Hungary.
- hiccups — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- hiccupy — having hiccups
- hideous — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hideout — a safe place for hiding, especially from the law.
- high up — in a high place
- high-up — holding a high position or rank.
- hiiumaa — an island in the Baltic, W of and belonging to Estonia. 373 sq. mi. (965 sq. km).
- hike up — raise or lift quickly
- hilarus — Saint, died a.d. 468, pope 461–468.
- hinault — Bernard, born 1954, French cyclist with five victories (1978–79, 1981–82, and 1985) in the Tour de France.
- hindgut — Zoology. the last portion of the vertebrate alimentary canal, between the cecum and the anus, involved mainly with water resorption and with the storage and elimination of food residue; the large intestine. the posterior colon of arthropods, composed of ectodermal, chitin-lined tissue.
- hirsute — hairy; shaggy.
- hirudin — a gray or white, water-soluble acidic polypeptide obtained from the buccal gland of leeches, used in medicine chiefly as an anticoagulant.
- hit out — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- hit-run — hit-and-run (defs 1, 2, 4).
- hocused — Simple past tense and past participle of hocus.
- hofbrau — an informal, German-style restaurant or tavern.
- hokonui — illicit whisky
- hokusai — Katsushika [kah-tsoo-shee-kah] /ˈkɑ tsʊˈʃi kɑ/ (Show IPA), 1760–1849, Japanese painter and illustrator.
- hold up — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- hold-up — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- holdout — an act or instance of holding out.
- holdups — Plural form of holdup.
- hole up — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.