11-letter words containing i, n, h, u
- heroin user — a person who regularly takes the drug heroin, who may or may not be addicted to it
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hiccoughing — Present participle of hiccough.
- hideousness — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority: The candidate has claimed the moral high ground.
- high-strung — at great tension; highly excitable or nervous; edgy: high-strung nerves; a high-strung person.
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hip-hugging — (of trousers) beginning at the hips instead of the waist
- hirsuteness — The characteristic of being hirsute; hairiness.
- hit-and-run — guilty of fleeing the scene of an accident or injury one has caused, especially a vehicular accident, thereby attempting to evade being identified and held responsible: a hit-and-run driver.
- holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
- home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
- homoiousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence of the Son is similar to, but not the same as, that of the Father.
- honey guide — any of several small, usually dull-colored birds of the family Indicatoridae, of Africa and southern Asia, certain species of which are noted for their habit of leading people or animals to nests of honeybees in order to feed on the honey, larvae, and wax of the nests after they have been broken open.
- hongshui he — a river in SW China, flowing SE to the Xiang Jiang. 900 miles (1448 km) long.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- honorius ii — (Lamberto Scannabecchi) died 1130, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1124–30.
- honorius iv — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- honourarium — Nonstandard spelling of honorarium.
- hormogonium — a portion of filament in blue-green algae that becomes detached and reproduces by cell division.
- horrisonous — sounding dreadful
- hot-tubbing — a wooden tub, usually large enough to accommodate several persons, that is filled with hot aerated water and often equipped with a thermostat and whirlpool: used for recreation or physical therapy and often placed out of doors, as on a porch.
- house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
- house-train — to housebreak.
- hsuan chiao — Taoism (def 2).
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- huffishness — The quality of being huffish.
- human being — any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
- humectation — A moistening.
- humidifying — Present participle of humidify.
- humiliating — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- humming top — a top that hums as it spins
- hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hurriedness — The state of being hurried.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- husking bee — a gathering of farm families or friends to husk corn, usually as part of a celebration or party.
- hydroxonium — (chemistry) The cation obtained by reacting a proton with water - H3O+; hydronium.
- hyperimmune — protected from a disease or the like, as by inoculation.
- hyponitrous — of or derived from hyponitrous acid.
- hyponychium — (anatomy) The thickened epithelium beneath a nail or claw.
- ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
- ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
- in no hurry — If you are in no hurry to do something, you are very unwilling to do it.
- in the buff — naked
- in the club — pregnant
- in the hunt — If a team or competitor is in the hunt for something, they still have a chance of winning it.