9-letter words containing s, h, u, a
- halituous — (obsolete) Produced by, or like, breath; vaporous.
- hamamatsu — a city on S central Honshu, in central Japan.
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handcuffs — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- hands up! — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handsturn — an amount of work or the period of time spent doing a piece of work
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- harborous — welcoming and offering hospitality
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- harquebus — any of several small-caliber long guns operated by a matchlock or wheel-lock mechanism, dating from about 1400.
- harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
- hashhouse — (US colloquial) A cheap diner or eating-house.
- hastilude — A medieval martial game.
- hauntings — Plural form of haunting.
- hausfraus — Plural form of hausfrau.
- haushofer — Karl, 1860–1946, German geographer and general: political adviser to Hitler.
- haussmann — Georges Eugène [zhawrzh œ-zhen] /ʒɔrʒ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1809–91, French administrator who improved the landscaping, street designs, and utilities systems of Paris.
- haustoria — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- havasupai — a member of a small tribe of nomadic North American Indians now living in Arizona.
- hazardous — full of risk; perilous; risky: a hazardous journey.
- hazelnuts — Plural form of hazelnut.
- head smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by a dark-brown, powdery mass of spores replacing the affected seed heads, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Sorosporium, Sphacelotheca, and Ustilago.
- heat slug — (hardware, processor) A metal plate that helps dissipate heat away from the silicon core of a processor to the packaging or heat-sink.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- heucheras — Plural form of heuchera.
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hindustan — Persian name of India, especially the part N of the Deccan.
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- hit squad — a team of hit men, as one organized for the purpose of assassinating a political figure.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- hot sauce — any of several highly spiced, pungent condiments, especially one containing some type of pepper or chili.
- hourglass — an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- housecats — Plural form of housecat.
- housecoat — a woman's robe or dresslike garment in various lengths, for casual wear about the house.
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- housemate — a person with whom one shares a house or other residence.
- houseware — Homeware.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- huaraches — Plural form of huarache.
- huascaran — a mountain in W Peru, in the Andes. 22,205 feet (6768 meters).
- humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.
- humanists — Plural form of humanist.
- humanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humanize.