9-letter words containing s, h, i, n, u
- gushingly — In a gushing manner; with overeffusive sentimentality.
- hauntings — Plural form of haunting.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- hindustan — Persian name of India, especially the part N of the Deccan.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- houndfish — Tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae.
- houseline — light cordage used for seizing.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- huffiness — The property of being huffy.
- hui-tsung — 1082–1135, emperor of China 1101–26: painter and patron of art.
- humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.
- humanists — Plural form of humanist.
- humanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humanize.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- humidness — Humidity.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hunkerism — a member of the conservative faction in the Democratic Party in New York State, 1845–48.
- huskiness — big and strong; burly.
- huskisson — William, 1770–1830, British statesman and financier.
- hussein i — 1935–1999, king of Jordan 1953–99.
- ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.
- ibn-rushd — Averroës
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- in chorus — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- in shtuck — in trouble
- inrushing — Moving towards or into.
- isanthous — having regular flowers.
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- kiungshan — Qiongshan.
- kuniyoshi — Yasuo [yah-soo-aw] /yɑˈsu ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1953, U.S. painter, born in Japan.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- manicheus — Manes.
- mash unit — a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
- mint bush — an aromatic shrub of the genus Prostanthera with a mintlike odour: family Lamiaceae (labiates): native to Australia
- mouthings — Plural form of mouthing.
- munchkins — Plural form of munchkin.
- murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
- mushiness — resembling mush; pulpy.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- noughties — The decade from 2000 to 2009.
- nourished — Simple past tense and past participle of nourish.
- nourisher — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- nourishes — Plural form of nourish.
- onrushing — Rushing or flowing forward.
- oughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- outshined — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.