6-letter words containing h, u
- clutha — a river in New Zealand, the longest river in South Island; rising in the Southern Alps it flows southeast to the Pacific. Length: 338 km (210 miles)
- cohune — a tropical American feather palm, Attalea (or Orbignya) cohune, whose large oily nuts yield an oil similar to coconut oil
- couche — (of a shield) tilted
- coughs — Plural form of cough.
- cought — Misspelling of caught.
- couthy — Alternative form of couthie.
- crouch — If you are crouching, your legs are bent under you so that you are close to the ground and leaning forward slightly.
- crunch — If you crunch something hard, such as a sweet, you crush it noisily between your teeth.
- crutch — A crutch is a stick whose top fits round or under the user's arm, which someone with an injured foot or leg uses to support their weight when walking.
- cudahy — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- culham — a village in S central England, in Oxfordshire: site of the UK centre for thermonuclear reactor research and of the Joint European Torus (JET) programme
- cultch — old shells, stones, etc., forming a spawning bed for oysters
- cuphea — any of various New World plants belonging to the genus Cuphea, of the loosestrife family, having tubular, usually reddish or purple flowers.
- curagh — a coracle.
- cushat — a wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)
- cushaw — a variety of crookneck squash (Cucurbita moschata) similar to the pumpkin
- cushty — an exclamation of pleasure, agreement, approval, etc
- cutcha — crude; makeshift
- dachau — a town in S Germany, in Bavaria: site of a Nazi concentration camp. Pop: 39 474 (2003 est)
- dehull — to remove the hulls from (beans, seeds, etc.); hull.
- dehusk — (transitive) To remove the husk from.
- demuth — Charles, 1883–1935, U.S. painter and illustrator.
- dharuk — an Australian aboriginal language, now extinct, spoken in the area of the first European settlement at Port Jackson.
- dhulia — a city in Maharashtra state, W central India.
- dhurna — (in India) the practice of exacting justice or compliance with a just demand by sitting and fasting at the doorstep of an offender until death or until the demand is granted.
- douche — a jet or current of water, sometimes with a dissolved medicating or cleansing agent, applied to a body part, organ, or cavity for medicinal or hygienic purposes.
- douchy — (pejorative) Like a douche bag.
- doughs — Plural form of dough.
- dought — a simple past tense of dow1 .
- doughy — of or like dough, especially in being soft and heavy or pallid and flabby: a doughy consistency; a fat, doughy face.
- dourah — a type of grain sorghum with slender stalks, cultivated in Asia and Africa and introduced into the U.S.
- drouth — a period of dry weather, especially a long one that is injurious to crops.
- dudish — resembling or characteristic of a dude, as in manner or appearance.
- dukkah — An Egyptian dry mixture of chopped nuts, seeds and Middle Eastern spices, usually eaten by dipping bread into olive oil and then into the mixture.
- dukkha — the first of the Four Noble Truths, that all human experience is transient and that suffering results from excessive desire and attachment.
- duluth — Daniel Greysolon [da-nyel gre-saw-lawn] /daˈnyɛl grɛ sɔˈlɔ̃/ (Show IPA), Sieur, 1636–1710, French trader and explorer in Canada and Great Lakes region.
- dunham — Katherine, 1910?–2006, U.S. dancer and choreographer.
- durham — a county in NE England. 940 sq. mi. (2435 sq. km).
- dutchy — Archaic spelling of duchy.
- echium — (botany) Any member of the genus Echium of flowering plants.
- embush — (obsolete) To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.
- enough — As much or as many as required.
- euchre — A card game for two to four players, usually played with the thirty-two highest cards, the aim being to win at least three of the five tricks played.
- eunuch — A man who has been castrated, especially (in the past) one employed to guard the women's living areas at an oriental court.
- euphon — a glass harmonica
- exhume — Dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground.
- fichus — a woman's kerchief or shawl, generally triangular in shape, worn draped over the shoulders or around the neck with the ends drawn together on the breast.
- fluish — having flu-like symptoms; like someone who has the flu
- flushy — ruddy; reddish
- fought — simple past tense and past participle of fight.