10-letter words containing s, h, u, n
- freshen up — have a quick wash
- furbishing — Present participle of furbish.
- furnishers — Plural form of furnisher.
- furnishing — paper pulp and any ingredients added to it prior to its introduction into a papermaking machine.
- gaucheness — The quality of being gauche.
- gazehounds — Plural form of gazehound.
- gesundheit — Used to wish good health to a person who has just sneezed.
- greenhouse — a building, room, or area, usually chiefly of glass, in which the temperature is maintained within a desired range, used for cultivating tender plants or growing plants out of season.
- greyhounds — Plural form of greyhound.
- grindhouse — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- groundfish — (fishing) Fish that swim near the seafloor.
- groundhogs — Plural form of groundhog.
- gumshoeing — Present participle of gumshoe.
- halogenous — (chemistry)describes a compound containing a halogen as part of the molecule.
- hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
- hantavirus — any of several viruses of the family Bunyaviridae, spread chiefly by wild rodents, that cause acute respiratory illness, kidney failure, and other syndromes.
- harlequins — Plural form of harlequin.
- harmonious — marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: a harmonious group.
- harmoniums — Plural form of harmonium.
- hausfrauen — a housewife.
- head nurse — the chief nurse in a hospital; matron
- helianthus — any composite plant of the genus Helianthus, comprising the sunflowers.
- hellhounds — Plural form of hellhound.
- hexagynous — (of a plant) having six pistils
- hexandrous — (of a plant) having six stamen
- hieronymus — Eusebius [yoo-see-bee-uh s] /yuˈsi bi əs/ (Show IPA), Jerome, Saint.
- hindu kush — a mountain range in S Asia, mostly in NE Afghanistan, extending W from the Himalayas. Highest peak, Tirich Mir, 25,230 feet (7690 meters).
- hindustani — a standard language and lingua franca of northern India based on a dialect of Western Hindi spoken around Delhi. Abbreviation: Hind. Compare Hindi (def 2), Urdu.
- hirudinous — leech-like
- homogenous — Biology. corresponding in structure because of a common origin.
- homogonous — pertaining to monoclinous flowers that do not differ in the relative length of stamens and pistils (opposed to heterogonous).
- homonymous — of the nature of homonyms; having the same name.
- homoousian — a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence or substance of the Father and the Son is the same (opposed to Heteroousian).
- homunculus — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- honorius i — died a.d. 638, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 625–638.
- honourless — Without honour; dishonourable or dishonoured.
- horrendous — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- hothousing — Present participle of hothouse.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- housatonic — a river flowing S from NW Massachusetts through SW Connecticut to Long Island Sound near Stratford, Connecticut. 148 miles (240 km) long.
- house wine — a wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- house wren — a common American wren, Troglodytes aedon, that nests around houses.
- house-hunt — to search for a house to buy or rent
- housebound — restricted to the house, as by bad weather or illness.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- housefront — the façade of a house
- houselling — administration of the Eucharist
- housephone — a telephone, used for making calls within a hotel or apartment house, that does not have a direct line to an exchange and whose calls are routed through the building's switchboard.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.