10-letter words containing r, h, e, u
- minehunter — a naval vessel that searches for mines by electronic means
- moa hunter — the name given by anthropologists to the early Māori inhabitants of New Zealand
- morgenthau — Henry, 1856–1946, U.S. financier and diplomat, born in Germany.
- muhlenberg — Frederick Augustus Conrad, 1750–1801, U.S. clergyman and statesman: first Speaker of the House 1789–91, 1793–95.
- murphy bed — a bed constructed so that it can be folded or swung into a closet.
- murthering — Present participle of murther.
- murtherous — (archaic) Intending, or likely to commit murder; bloodthirsty or homicidal.
- mushroomed — Simple past tense and past participle of mushroom.
- mushroomer — a person who picks mushrooms
- neighbours — Plural form of neighbour.
- nephridium — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- neurohumor — neurotransmitter
- neuropathy — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- neutrophil — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- nordhausen — a city in central Germany: site of a former Nazi concentration camp.
- nursehound — a species of European dogfish, Scyliorrhinus caniculus
- oberhausen — a city in W Germany, in the lower Ruhr valley.
- octopusher — a person who plays octopush
- on the run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- one's hour — a time of success, fame, etc
- otherguess — of another kind; different.
- otterhound — one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.
- our father — Lord's Prayer.
- outbreathe — to breathe out
- outmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of outmarch.
- outreached — Simple past tense and past participle of outreach.
- outreaches — Plural form of outreach.
- outstretch — to stretch forth; extend: to outstretch one's hand in welcome.
- overbought — marked by prices considered unjustifiably high because of extensive buying: The stock market is overbought now. Compare oversold.
- overhonour — to honour too highly
- overlaunch — (in shipbuilding) to overlap planks
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overtaught — taught to excess
- overthrust — a thrust fault with a low dip and a large slip.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- pen pusher — pencil pusher.
- pen-pusher — pencil pusher.
- pepperbush — sweet pepperbush.
- phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
- phosphuret — a phosphate
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- powerhouse — Electricity. a generating station.
- pre-launch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- prepublish — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- promethium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element. Symbol: Pm; atomic number: 61.
- publishers — a publishing company
- puducherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
- pursership — the position of purser