11-letter words containing t, h, u
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- hot flushes — a sudden unpleasant hot feeling in the skin, caused by endocrine imbalance, esp experienced by women at menopause
- hot jupiter — any of a class of large, hot, gaseous planets similar to Jupiter in mass but outside our solar system.
- hot-tubbing — a wooden tub, usually large enough to accommodate several persons, that is filled with hot aerated water and often equipped with a thermostat and whirlpool: used for recreation or physical therapy and often placed out of doors, as on a porch.
- houndstooth — woven or printed with a pattern of broken or jagged checks: a hound's-tooth jacket.
- house agent — a real-estate agent.
- house guest — a person staying with a household as a guest for one night or longer.
- house party — the guests at such an affair or party: The house party goes sailing today.
- house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- house style — a set of rules concerning spellings, typography, etc, observed by editorial and printing staff in a particular publishing or printing company
- house white — a white wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- house-train — to housebreak.
- houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
- housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
- houseguests — Plural form of houseguest.
- houselights — (plural only) The lights that illuminate the audience section of an auditorium or theatre.
- housemaster — a man who is in charge of a house or a dormitory in a private school for boys.
- housemother — a woman in charge of a residence, especially for children, students, or young women, who acts as hostess, chaperon, and occasionally as housekeeper.
- houseparent — one of a married couple responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc., sometimes acting solely as an advisor, but often serving as host or hostess, chaperon, housekeeper, etc.
- houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
- housesitter — Alternative spelling of house-sitter.
- hsuan t'ung — Pu-yi, Henry.
- hsuan tsung — a.d. 685–762, Chinese emperor of the Tang dynasty 712–756.
- hucksterage — the business of a huckster; peddling
- hucksteress — a female huckster
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hucksterish — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- huitlacoche — Corn smut prepared as a delicacy.
- humectation — A moistening.
- humidistats — Plural form of humidistat.
- humiliating — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- humiliative — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humming top — a top that hums as it spins
- humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
- hunt button — a button engraved with the insignia of one's hunt and worn on the coat and vest as part of the hunt uniform.
- hurdle rate — the rate of return that a proposed project must provide if it is to be worth considering: usually calculated as the cost of the capital involved adjusted by a risk factor
- hurtfulness — The property of being hurtful.
- hurtleberry — whortleberry.
- husk tomato — ground cherry (def 1).
- husk-tomato — ground-cherry
- hyperacuity — an extreme acuteness (of the senses)
- hyponitrous — of or derived from hyponitrous acid.
- hyposulfite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- hypotenuses — Plural form of hypotenuse.
- hypothallus — a layer of hyphae rimming the thallus of certain lichens.
- hypothecium — the layer of hyphal tissue directly beneath the hymenium of an apothecium.