8-letter words containing m, u, h
- humanist — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humanity — all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.
- humanize — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humanoid — having human characteristics or form; resembling human beings.
- humblest — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humbling — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humboldt — Friedrich Heinrich Alexander [free-drikh hahyn-rikh ah-lek-sahn-duh r] /ˈfri drɪx ˈhaɪn rɪx ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dər/ (Show IPA), Baron von [fuh n] /fən/ (Show IPA), 1769–1859, German naturalist, writer, and statesman.
- humicole — any plant that thrives on humus
- humidify — to make humid.
- humidity — humid condition; moistness; dampness.
- humidors — Plural form of humidor.
- humified — transformed into humus.
- humility — the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc.
- humiture — a measure of the discomfort most people feel because of the combined effects of atmospheric temperature and humidity; variously defined as Fahrenheit temperature plus some function of vapor pressure.
- hummable — (of a piece of music) able to be hummed easily; melodic; tuneful.
- hummocks — Plural form of hummock.
- hummocky — Also, hammock. an elevated tract of land rising above the general level of a marshy region.
- humoresk — humorous musical composition
- humorful — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humoring — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humorism — (medicine, historical) The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.
- humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- humorous — Archaic. moist; wet.
- humoured — Simple past tense and past participle of humour.
- hump day — Wednesday
- humpback — a back that is humped in a convex position.
- humphing — Present participle of humph.
- humphrey — (Duke of Gloucester) 1391–1447, English soldier and statesman (youngest son of Henry IV).
- humpless — having no hump
- humstrum — a musical instrument that is of crude construction or out of tune
- huntsman — the member of a hunt staff who manages the hounds during the hunt.
- huntsmen — Plural form of huntsman.
- hutments — Plural form of hutment.
- huysmans — Joris Karl [zhoh-rees kahrl] /ʒoʊˈris kɑrl/ (Show IPA), (Charles Marie Georges Huysmans) 1848–1907, French novelist.
- hymenium — the sporogenous layer in a fungus, composed of asci or basidia often interspersed with various sterile structures, as paraphyses.
- hymettus — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens. 3370 feet (1027 meters).
- hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- inasmuch — To the extent that; insofar as.
- inhumane — not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
- inhumate — to bury; inhume
- inhuming — Present participle of inhume.
- insomuch — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- khartoum — a region in N Africa, S of the Sahara and Libyan deserts, extending from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
- kombucha — Also called kombucha mushroom. a live culture of multiple species of yeast and bacteria, grown to make a mildly alcoholic fermented beverage.
- krumhorn — crumhorn.
- luhrmann — Baz (Mark Anthony). born 1962, Australian film director and screenwriter; his films include Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo and Juliet (1996), Moulin Rouge (2001), Australia (2008), and The Great Gatsby (2013)
- lumachel — (mineralogy) A grey form of limestone that contains fossil shells, and reflects a fiery play of colours.
- lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
- macahuba — a South American palm tree of the genus Acrocomia
- macushla — darling.