9-letter words containing m, u, h
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humorsome — Alternative form of humoursome.
- humourful — Humorous; comical.
- humouring — humor.
- humourist — (British) alternative spelling of humorist.
- humourous — (chiefly, UK, uncommon, nonstandard) alternative spelling of humorous.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- humphries — (John) Barry. born 1934, Australian comic actor and writer, best known for creating the character Dame Edna Everage
- humungous — humongous.
- hunkerism — a member of the conservative faction in the Democratic Party in New York State, 1845–48.
- huntsmans — (Australia) Plural form of huntsman, in the sense of a spider.
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.
- hypericum — A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the St. John’s worts and rose of Sharon.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- in-humane — not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
- inhumanly — lacking qualities of sympathy, pity, warmth, compassion, or the like; cruel; brutal: an inhuman master.
- isthmuses — Plural form of isthmus.
- jotunheim — the outer world, or realm of giants; Utgard.
- jump head — the headline printed over the continued portion of a story in a newspaper, magazine, etc., usually condensed from the main headline.
- jump ship — to desert, esp to leave a ship in which one is legally bound to serve
- jump shot — a shot with one or both hands in which a player leaps into the air and shoots the ball at the basket at the moment of reaching the highest point of the leap.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- kamadhenu — a celestial cow whose milk is life, and one of whose milkings is the visible world.
- kampuchea — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- kathmandu — a constitutional monarchy in the Himalayas between N India and Tibet. About 56,830 sq. mi. (147,190 sq. km). Capital: Kathmandu.
- krumhorns — Plural form of krumhorn.
- krummholz — a forest of stunted trees near the timber line on a mountain.
- krummhorn — A medieval wind instrument with an enclosed double reed and an upward-curving end, producing an even, nasal sound.
- kumarahou — a shrub, Pomaderris kumeraho, found in the north of New Zealand's North Island, the flowers of which produce a soap-like lather when rubbed
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lanthanum — a rare-earth, trivalent, metallic element, allied to aluminum, found in certain minerals, as monazite. Symbol: La; atomic weight: 138.91; atomic number: 57; specific gravity: 6.15 at 20°C.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- lehmbruck — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1881–1919, German sculptor.
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- limehouse — a dock district in the East End of London, England, once notorious for its squalor: formerly a Chinese quarter.
- loudmouth — a loudmouthed person.
- lumpishly — In a lumpish manner.
- luna moth — a large, pale-green, American moth, Actias luna, having purple-brown markings, lunate spots, and long tails.
- lunchmeat — luncheon meat.
- lunchroom — a room, as in a school, where light meals or snacks can be bought or where food brought from home may be eaten.
- lunchtime — a period set aside for eating lunch or the period of an hour or so, beginning roughly at noon, during which lunch is commonly eaten.
- macarthur — Douglas, 1880–1964, U.S. general: supreme commander of allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II and of UN forces in Korea 1950–51.
- madhouses — Plural form of madhouse.
- maha yuga — a period of 12,000 years, comprising four Yugas.
- mahmud ii — 1785–1839, sultan of Turkey 1809–39.
- makizushi — Rolled sushi.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another