10-letter words containing u, n, h
- flaunching — The sloped mortar fillet around the base of a chimney pot, which serves to hold the pot in position and allow rainwater to run off.
- flugelhorn — a brass wind instrument with three valves, usually pitched in B flat and used especially in military bands.
- flunkeyish — resembling a flunkey
- forfeuchen — worn out; exhausted
- fourteenth — next after the thirteenth; being the ordinal number for 14.
- fraughting — Present participle of fraught.
- fraunhofer — Joseph von [joh-zuh f von,, -suh f;; German yoh-zef fuh n] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf vɒn,, -səf;; German ˈyoʊ zɛf fən/ (Show IPA), 1787–1826, German optician and physicist.
- free lunch — food provided without charge in some bars and saloons to attract customers.
- french-cut — sliced lengthwise into long, thin strips.
- freshen up — have a quick wash
- fundholder — (British) a general practitioner who manages his own budget, purchasing healthcare from one or more hospital trusts.
- furbishing — Present participle of furbish.
- furnishers — Plural form of furnisher.
- furnishing — paper pulp and any ingredients added to it prior to its introduction into a papermaking machine.
- furthering — at or to a greater distance; farther: I'm too tired to go further.
- galumphing — to move along heavily and clumsily.
- gaucheness — The quality of being gauche.
- gazehounds — Plural form of gazehound.
- gesundheit — Used to wish good health to a person who has just sneezed.
- gnaphalium — Any of the genus Gnaphalium of flowering plants, the cudweeds.
- go much on — to approve of or be in agreement with (something): usually used in the negative
- gothenburg — Göteborg.
- greenhouse — a building, room, or area, usually chiefly of glass, in which the temperature is maintained within a desired range, used for cultivating tender plants or growing plants out of season.
- greyhounds — Plural form of greyhound.
- grindhouse — a burlesque house, especially one providing continuous entertainment at reduced prices.
- groundfish — (fishing) Fish that swim near the seafloor.
- groundhogs — Plural form of groundhog.
- groupthink — the practice of approaching problems or issues as matters that are best dealt with by consensus of a group rather than by individuals acting independently; conformity.
- guaguanche — a barracuda, Sphyraena guachanco, found chiefly off the coast of Florida.
- guggenheim — Daniel, 1856–1930, U.S. industrialist and philanthropist.
- guinea hen — the female of the guinea fowl.
- gumshoeing — Present participle of gumshoe.
- gunfighter — a person highly skilled in the use of a gun and a veteran of many gunfights, especially one living during the frontier days of the American West.
- habitaunce — a place where a person or an animal lives or resides
- hakenkreuz — a swastika, especially that used as the emblem of the Nazi party and the Third Reich.
- half-bound — bound in half binding.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- half-human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- half-pound — a unit of weight equal to 8 ounces avoirdupois (0.227 kilogram) or 6 ounces troy or apothecaries' weight (0.187 kilogram).
- half-round — semicircular in cross section, as a molding or piece of type.
- halogenous — (chemistry)describes a compound containing a halogen as part of the molecule.
- hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
- han fei zu — died 233 bc, Chinese diplomat and philosopher of law
- hand cruft — (jargon) (After "hand craft") To write something by hand that would be better done automatically, e.g. writing assembly language instead of using a compiler (see hand hacking).
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- hand-bound — (of books) bound by hand.
- hand-me-up — something, such as an item of electronic equipment, that is passed from a younger to an older member of a family
- handcuffed — Simple past tense and past participle of handcuff.
- hang about — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hang it up — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.