9-letter words containing s, h, u, n
- gushingly — In a gushing manner; with overeffusive sentimentality.
- 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
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- hauntings — Plural form of haunting.
- 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.
- hazelnuts — Plural form of hazelnut.
- 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.
- hen-house — a shelter for poultry.
- henequens — Plural form of henequen.
- henhouses — Plural form of henhouse.
- hindustan — Persian name of India, especially the part N of the Deccan.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- honourous — Rare spelling of honorous.
- hornpouts — Plural form of hornpout.
- houndfish — Tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae.
- hounskull — a snoutlike, usually conical, visor attached to a basinet of the 14th century.
- 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.
- huascaran — a mountain in W Peru, in the Andes. 22,205 feet (6768 meters).
- huffiness — The property of being huffy.
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- 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.
- humanness — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- humidness — Humidity.
- humongous — extraordinarily large.
- humungous — humongous.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hunkerism — a member of the conservative faction in the Democratic Party in New York State, 1845–48.
- hunt's-up — (formerly) a call played on a hunting horn in the morning to rouse and assemble the participants in a hunt.
- hunteress — Obsolete form of huntress.
- huntsmans — (Australia) Plural form of huntsman, in the sense of a spider.
- husbanded — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- huskiness — big and strong; burly.
- huskisson — William, 1770–1830, British statesman and financier.
- hussein i — 1935–1999, king of Jordan 1953–99.
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- hypotonus — Hypotonia.
- ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.