10-letter words containing u, n, h, r, i
- hieronymus — Eusebius [yoo-see-bee-uh s] /yuˈsi bi əs/ (Show IPA), Jerome, Saint.
- hindenburg — Paul von [pawl von;; German poul fuh n] /pɔl vɒn;; German paʊl fən/ (Show IPA), (Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg) 1847–1934, German field marshal; 2nd president of Germany 1925–34.
- hirudinean — any annelid worm of the class Hirudinea, comprising the leeches.
- hirudinoid — of, relating to, or resembling a leech.
- hirudinous — leech-like
- honorarium — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
- honorius i — died a.d. 638, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 625–638.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- huebnerite — a reddish-brown mineral of the wolframite group, manganese tungstate, MnWO 4 , a minor ore of tungsten.
- humaniform — Like a human or that of a human in form, seeming, or appearance.
- humdingers — Plural form of humdinger.
- humgruffin — a terrible or repulsive person
- hungriness — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hurricanes — Plural form of hurricane.
- hursinghar — night jasmine (def 1).
- hyaluronic — Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.
- in a hurry — rushing
- infrahuman — less than human; subhuman.
- interhuman — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- manchurian — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- michurinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Ryazan.
- milk churn — a container used to transport milk from farms
- minehunter — a naval vessel that searches for mines by electronic means
- murthering — Present participle of murther.
- nail brush — small brush for cleaning finger- and toe-nails
- neighbours — Plural form of neighbour.
- nephridium — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- neutrophil — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- nourishing — promoting or sustaining life, growth, or strength: a nourishing diet.
- nudibranch — a shell-less, marine snail of the suborder Nudibranchia, having external, often branched respiratory appendages on the back and sides.
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- purchasing — buying
- quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
- re-hauling — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
- rehumanize — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- relinquish — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- rhinovirus — any of a varied and widespread group of picornaviruses responsible for many respiratory diseases, including the common cold.
- rhumb line — a curve on the surface of a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle. It is the path taken by a vessel or aircraft that maintains a constant compass direction.
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- ruffianish — like a ruffian
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm