10-letter words containing h, u
- athanasius — Saint. ?296–373 ad, patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism. Feast day: May 2
- athenaeums — Plural form of athenaeum.
- athleisure — the wearing of sports clothes as leisurewear
- audiograph — a machine used to test a patient's hearing by transmitting sound waves directly to the inner ear
- audiophile — a person who has a great interest in high-fidelity sound reproduction
- autarchies — Plural form of autarchy.
- autarchist — of or relating to autarchism
- auth. ver. — Authorized Version (of the Bible)
- authigenic — (of minerals) having crystallized in a sediment during or after deposition
- authorised — Alternative spelling of authorized.
- authorises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authorise.
- authoritie — Obsolete spelling of authority.
- authorized — officially permitted or empowered
- authorizer — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of authorize.
- authorless — having no author; anonymous
- authorship — The authorship of a piece of writing is the identity of the person who wrote it.
- authourity — Obsolete form of authority.
- authourize — Rare spelling of authorize.
- autochrome — a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet.
- autochthon — one of the earliest known inhabitants of any country; aboriginal
- autographs — Plural form of autograph.
- autography — the writing of something in one's own handwriting; something handwritten
- autophagia — sustenance by self-absorption of the tissues of the body
- autophilia — Self love, especially sexual attraction to the self.
- autophobia — the fear of solitude or being alone
- autophobic — Of or pertaining to autophobia.
- autotheism — the doctrine of God's self-existence and subsistence
- autotheist — a person who worships himself or herself
- autotrophs — Plural form of autotroph.
- autotrophy — (in certain plants and bacteria) the process of making food from inorganic substances, using photosynthesis
- auxochrome — a group of atoms that can be attached to a chromogen to convert it into a dye
- auxotrophs — Plural form of auxotroph.
- auxotrophy — the inability to synthesize particular growth factors, due to mutational changes
- avouchable — able to be avouched
- avouchment — The act of avouching.
- bad cheque — A bad cheque is a bank cheque that will not be paid because there is a mistake on it, or because there is not enough money in the account of the person who wrote the cheque.
- badmouthed — Simple past tense and past participle of badmouth.
- baha'ullah — title of Mirza Hosein Ali. 1817–92, Persian religious leader: originally a Shiite Muslim, later a disciple of the Bab; founder of the Baha'í Faith
- bahawalpur — an industrial city in Pakistan: cotton, soap. Pop: 563 000 (2005 est)
- bahuvrihis — Plural form of bahuvrihi.
- bakehouses — Plural form of bakehouse.
- barkhausen — Heinrich Georg. 1881–1956, German physicist; discovered that ferromagnetic material in an increasing magnetic field becomes magnetized in discrete jumps (the Barkhausen effect)
- bathhouses — Plural form of bathhouse.
- bawdyhouse — a house of prostitution
- be-thought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
- beach plum — a rosaceous shrub, Prunus maritima, of coastal regions of E North America
- behaviours — manner of behaving or acting.
- bell punch — a machine that issues or stamps a ticket, etc, ringing a bell as it does so
- bequeathal — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.