10-letter words containing u, n, h, r
- punch card — punched card
- punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
- 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.
- rock hound — a geologist.
- rock-hound — a geologist.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- rough-hewn — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- round arch — an arch formed in a continuous curve, especially in a semicircle.
- round hand — a style of handwriting in which the letters are round, full, and clearly separated.
- roundheels — a prostitute.
- roundhouse — a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
- ruffianish — like a ruffian
- run a bath — to turn on the taps to fill a bath with water for bathing oneself
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- saharanpur — a city in NW Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- school run — The school run is the journey that parents make each day when they take their children to school and bring them home from school.
- scrunch up — If you scrunch something up, you squeeze it or bend it so that it is no longer in its natural shape and is often crushed.
- scruncheon — (in Newfoundland) a small crisp piece of fried pork fat
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- 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.
- sharpen up — hone, refine
- 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.
- shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
- showground — outdoor events venue
- shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- southerner — a native or inhabitant of the south.
- southernly — southerly.
- sub-branch — a further branch or division of something within an already established branch or division
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- superhuman — above or beyond what is human; having a higher nature or greater powers than humans have: a superhuman being.
- superphone — a telephone with a high-speed processor that can perform many of the functions of a computer
- sure thing — something that is or is supposed to be a certain success, as a bet or a business venture: He thinks that real estate is a sure thing.
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- synthronus — a combined throne for a bishop and his presbyters
- tannhauser — a German lyric poet of the 13th century: a well-known legend tells of his stay with Venus in the Venusberg and his later repentance.
- the burren — a limestone area on the North Clare coast in the Irish Republic, famous for its wild flowers, caves, and dolmens
- the crunch — the critical moment or situation
- thereunder — under or beneath that.