11-letter words containing u, n, h, r, i
- ground itch — a disease of the skin of the feet, caused by penetration of hookworm larvae, characterized by a blisterlike eruption and itching.
- ground-fish — bottom-fish.
- hacking run — (jargon) (Analogy with "bombing run" or "speed run") A hack session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours. May cause you to "change phase the hard way".
- haircutting — an act or instance of cutting the hair.
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- hard dinkum — hard work; a difficult task.
- hardicanute — 1019?–42, king of Denmark 1035–42, king of England 1040–42 (son of Canute).
- harrumphing — Present participle of harrumph.
- head injury — wound to the head
- hereinunder — In and under this (of a clause to follow later in a document, etc.).
- hermeneutic — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- heroin user — a person who regularly takes the drug heroin, who may or may not be addicted to it
- heteroauxin — indoleacetic acid.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority: The candidate has claimed the moral high ground.
- high-strung — at great tension; highly excitable or nervous; edgy: high-strung nerves; a high-strung person.
- hindquarter — the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs.
- hirsuteness — The characteristic of being hirsute; hairiness.
- hit-and-run — guilty of fleeing the scene of an accident or injury one has caused, especially a vehicular accident, thereby attempting to evade being identified and held responsible: a hit-and-run driver.
- holothurian — any echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, comprising the sea cucumbers.
- honorariums — Plural form of honorarium.
- honorius ii — (Lamberto Scannabecchi) died 1130, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1124–30.
- honorius iv — (Giacomo Savelli) 1210–87, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1285–87.
- honourarium — Nonstandard spelling of honorarium.
- hormogonium — a portion of filament in blue-green algae that becomes detached and reproduces by cell division.
- horrisonous — sounding dreadful
- house-train — to housebreak.
- huckstering — Present participle of huckster.
- hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hurriedness — The state of being hurried.
- hydroxonium — (chemistry) The cation obtained by reacting a proton with water - H3O+; hydronium.
- hyperimmune — protected from a disease or the like, as by inoculation.
- hyponitrous — of or derived from hyponitrous acid.
- in no hurry — If you are in no hurry to do something, you are very unwilling to do it.
- infraphylum — (taxonomy) A taxon below subphylum and above superclass.
- interchurch — interdenominational.
- isochronous — isochronal.
- junior high — lower secondary school
- kanchipuram — a city in SE India, in Tamil Nadu: a sacred Hindu town known as "the Benares of the South"; textile industries. Pop: 152 984 (2001)
- lindenhurst — a village on central Long Island, in SE New York.
- line-hauler — a heavy-duty truck suitable for line-haul transportation.
- lion-hunter — a person who hunts lions, esp for sport
- luminophore — a molecule or group of molecules that emits light when illuminated.
- lutheranism — of or relating to Luther, adhering to his doctrines, or belonging to one of the Protestant churches that bear his name.
- monorhinous — having a single, median nostril, as the cyclostomes.
- mushrooming — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- nailbrushes — Plural form of nailbrush.
- neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
- neuroethics — The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.