7-letter words containing r, h, u
- jodhpur — Also called Marwar. a former state in NW India, now in Rajasthan.
- kashrut — the body of dietary laws prescribed for Jews: an observer of kashruth.
- keturah — the second wife of Abraham. Gen. 25:1.
- kurbash — a whip with leather thongs, formerly used in Turkey, Egypt, etc.
- kurdish — of or relating to the Kurds or their language.
- kushiro — a city in SE Hokkaido, Japan.
- kushner — Tony, born 1956, U.S. playwright.
- laugher — a person who laughs.
- luncher — Someone who lunches, someone who eats lunch.
- lurched — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- lurcher — a crossbred dog used especially by poachers.
- lurches — Archaic. the act of lurking or state of watchfulness.
- luthern — a dormer window.
- luthier — a maker of stringed instruments, as violins.
- manhour — Alternative form of man-hour.
- mathura — a city in W Uttar Pradesh, in N India: Hindu shrine and holy city; reputed birthplace of Krishna.
- mauther — a girl
- morrhua — a codfish
- moucher — someone who eats hungrily or greedily
- mouther — A person who mouths.
- muhajir — (Islam) a person who has performed the hajj.
- mukhtar — The head of a village in many Arab countries and in Cyprus.
- mulcher — a person or thing that mulches.
- muncher — to chew with steady or vigorous working of the jaws, often audibly.
- murdoch — (Dame) (Jean) Iris, 1919–99, British novelist and philosopher, born in Ireland.
- murghob — a river in NE Afghanistan and SE Turkmenistan, flowing from the Hindu Kush W and NW to the Kara Kum Desert. 530 miles (853 km) long.
- murkish — slightly murky
- murragh — a large caddis fly, Phryganea grandis, of still and running water, esteemed by trout
- murther — Obsolete form of murder.
- mushers — Plural form of musher.
- mushier — Comparative form of mushy.
- mushrik — A person who rejects Islamic tawhid; an idolater.
- nerthus — goddess of fertility, described by Tacitus in his Germania: later appeared in Scandinavian mythology as the god Njord.
- niebuhr — Barthold Georg [bahr-tawlt gey-awrk] /ˈbɑr tɔlt geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), 1776–1831, German historian.
- nkrumah — Kwame [kwah-mee] /ˈkwɑ mi/ (Show IPA), 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.
- nothura — Any member of the genus Nothura of birds in the tinamou family.
- nourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- nuraghe — any of the large, tower-shaped, prehistoric stone structures found in Sardinia and dating from the second millennium b.c. to the Roman conquest.
- ochrous — Containing ochre.
- ophiura — a sea creature, similar to a starfish, of the Ophiuridae family
- orpheus — Greek Legend. a poet and musician, a son of Calliope, who followed his dead wife, Eurydice, to the underworld. By charming Hades, he obtained permission to lead her away, provided he did not look back at her until they returned to earth. But at the last moment he looked, and she was lost to him forever.
- oughter — (archaic, or, dialectal) Ought to.
- outhear — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
- outhire — to hire out
- outrush — a rapid or intense outflow: an outrush of water from a bursting pipe.
- phrixus — a child who escaped on the back of a ram with his sister Helle from a plot against them. The fleece of the ram, which he sacrificed, was the Golden Fleece.
- prudish — excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc.
- puncher — a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
- purbach — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 75 miles (120 km) in diameter.
- purchas — Samuel, 1575?–1626, English writer and editor of travel books.