10-letter words containing o, a, h, u
- hexamerous — consisting of or divided into six parts.
- hexandrous — (of a plant) having six stamen
- hexapodous — (zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- hog peanut — a twining plant, Amphicarpaea bracteata, of the legume family, bearing pods that ripen in or on the ground.
- holdup man — a person who commits an armed robbery.
- holocausts — Plural form of holocaust.
- hologamous — of or relating to an organism having reproductive cells similar in size and structure to the somatic cells.
- home guard — a volunteer force used for meeting local emergencies when the regular armed forces are needed elsewhere.
- homogamous — Botany. having flowers or florets that do not differ sexually (opposed to heterogamous). having the stamens and pistils maturing simultaneously (opposed to dichogamous).
- homoiousia — The doctrine of the homoiousians.
- homoousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence or substance of the Father and the Son is the same (opposed to Heteroousian).
- homosexual — Older Use: Sometimes Disparaging. sexually attracted to members of one's own sex: homosexual students.
- homuncular — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- honorarium — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
- honourable — (British spelling) Alternative form of honorable.
- honourably — (British) In a honourable manner.
- horselaugh — a loud, coarse laugh, especially of derision.
- hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the celestial meridian of an observer and the hour circle of a celestial body.
- housatonic — a river flowing S from NW Massachusetts through SW Connecticut to Long Island Sound near Stratford, Connecticut. 148 miles (240 km) long.
- house call — a professional visit, as by a doctor or sales representative, to the home of a patient or customer.
- house flag — a flag flown by a merchant ship, bearing the emblem of its owners or operators.
- house mark — a trademark that appears on and identifies all of a company's products.
- house sale — the sale of a house
- house seat — one of a number of seats in a theater that the management reserves for special guests, friends of the producer or cast, etc.
- houseboats — Plural form of houseboat.
- housebreak — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housecarls — Plural form of housecarl.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- housecoats — Plural form of housecoat.
- housemaids — Plural form of housemaid.
- housemaker — Homemaker.
- housemates — Plural form of housemate.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- housewares — (North America) Domestic utensils, especially for the kitchen.
- houstonian — a native or resident of Houston, Texas.
- houstonias — Plural form of houstonia.
- hu yaobang — 1915–89, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party 1981–87.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- hullabaloo — a clamorous noise or disturbance; uproar.
- human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
- humaniform — Like a human or that of a human in form, seeming, or appearance.
- humiliator — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humoralism — a theory of the composition and workings of the human body, based on the idea that it was filled with four basic substances, or humours, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.
- humoralist — a person who believes in humoralism
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- huntswoman — Feminine form of huntsman.
- hurlbarrow — a wheelbarrow
- hyaluronic — Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.