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

  • sphaeridium — a round body found on sea urchins
  • storm house — a storm cellar.
  • stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • 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.
  • thaumaturgy — the working of wonders or miracles; magic.
  • 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.
  • thrummingly — in a thrumming manner or by way of thrumming
  • 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.
  • transhumant — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
  • 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 claim — a hypothesis not yet verified by experience.
  • 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.
  • turnip moth — a common noctuid moth, Agrotis segetum, drab grey-brown in colour, the larvae of which feed on root crops and brassica stems
  • ultrasmooth — extremely smooth
  • un-charming — pleasing; delightful: a charming child.
  • unhampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
  • unharmfully — in an unharmful way
  • 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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