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11-letter words containing r, h, e, u, m

  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • neurohumour — a chemical substance secreted by nerve endings; a neurohormone, particularly a neurotransmitter
  • nototherium — an extinct Pleistocene rhinoceros-sized marsupial of the genus Nototherium, related to the wombats
  • nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • orthohelium — (physics) Form of the helium atom in which the spins of the two electrons are parallel.
  • perithecium — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
  • perithelium — the connective tissue surrounding certain small vessels, as capillaries.
  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
  • pretty much — mostly
  • pseudomorph — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
  • quechumaran — a proposed language stock comprising Quechua and Aymara
  • rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
  • rheumaticky — affected with rheumatism
  • rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
  • river-mouth — an estuary
  • rough lemon — a variety of lemon that has orange-yellow, rough-skinned fruit and is used as a rootstock for the cultivation of other citrus fruits.
  • route march — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
  • rudesheimer — any of the Rheingau wines from the vineyards near Rüdesheim, a town on the Rhine River in W Germany.
  • scaramouche — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
  • semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
  • show jumper — A show jumper is a person who takes part in the sport of show jumping.
  • shuddersome — tending to shudder
  • southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
  • sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
  • storm house — a storm cellar.
  • summerhouse — a simple, often rustic structure in a park or garden, intended to provide shade in the summer.
  • superphylum — a category of related phyla within a kingdom.
  • supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
  • thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
  • thaumaturge — a worker of wonders or miracles; magician.
  • the numbers — an illegal lottery in which small bets are placed on the order of certain numbers, usually the last three, in some tabulation of game scores or financial reports published in the daily newspapers
  • thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
  • thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
  • thumbsucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
  • thunder mug — a chamber pot.
  • trumpetfish — any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout, as the slender, brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus, inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position.
  • truth serum — a drug, as the barbiturate thiopental, that induces in the subject a desire to talk or a state of heightened suggestibility, used in psychotherapy and in interrogation to discover repressed or consciously withheld information.
  • tub-thumper — a vociferous supporter or promoter, as of a cause.
  • unhampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
  • urethrotomy — an operation to cut a stricture of the urethra.
  • van der hum — a spicy liqueur from South Africa, flavored with tangerine and herbs.
  • xeranthemum — any of a Mediterranean genus of plants having flower heads that are dry and retain their colour and shape for years: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • youth crime — crime committed by juvenile offenders
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