7-letter words containing u, n, h
- haunter — to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person.
- hegumen — the head of a monastery.
- heinous — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- hen run — an enclosure for hens, esp one made of chicken wire
- hepburn — Audrey, 1929–93, U.S. actress, born in Belgium.
- hinault — Bernard, born 1954, French cyclist with five victories (1978–79, 1981–82, and 1985) in the Tour de France.
- hindgut — Zoology. the last portion of the vertebrate alimentary canal, between the cecum and the anus, involved mainly with water resorption and with the storage and elimination of food residue; the large intestine. the posterior colon of arthropods, composed of ectodermal, chitin-lined tissue.
- hirudin — a gray or white, water-soluble acidic polypeptide obtained from the buccal gland of leeches, used in medicine chiefly as an anticoagulant.
- hit-run — hit-and-run (defs 1, 2, 4).
- hokonui — illicit whisky
- holguin — a city in NE Cuba.
- homerun — Alternative form of home run.
- hominum — Misspelling of hominem See usage notes at ad hominem; Latin doesn't change spelling by English rules.
- hong-wu — title of Chu Yuan-Zhang (or Chu Yüan-Chang), 1328–98, first emperor (1368–98) of the Ming dynasty, uniting China under his rule by 1382
- honnour — Obsolete form of honor.
- honours — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- hornful — the amount a horn will hold
- houdini — Harry (Erich Weiss) 1874–1926, U.S. magician.
- hounded — one of any of several breeds of dogs trained to pursue game either by sight or by scent, especially one with a long face and large drooping ears.
- houndly — Of, like, or characteristic of hounds or dogs; doglike; dogly; canine.
- houngan — a voodoo priest
- housing — a covering of cloth for the back and flanks of a horse or other animal, for protection or ornament.
- housman — A(lfred) E(dward) 1859–1936, English poet and classical scholar.
- houston — Sam(uel) 1793–1863, U.S. soldier and political leader: president of the Republic of Texas 1836–38 and 1841–44.
- houting — a European whitefish, Coregonus oxyrhynchus, that lives in salt water but spawns in freshwater lakes: a valued food fish
- huainan — a city in central Anhui province, in E China.
- huanuco — a city in central Peru.
- hubbing — the central part of a wheel, as that part into which the spokes are inserted.
- huffing — a mood of sulking anger; a fit of resentment: Just because you disagree, don't walk off in a huff.
- huffkin — a kind of muffin or tea-cake made mainly in Kent
- huffman — Huffman coding
- hugging — Present participle of hug.
- huggins — Charles Brenton [bren-tn] /ˈbrɛn tn/ (Show IPA), 1901–97, U.S. surgeon and medical researcher, born in Canada: Nobel Prize 1966.
- huitain — a French verse form of eight lines or sets of lines of 8 or 10 syllables rhyming ababbcbc or abbaacac
- hulking — heavy and clumsy; bulky.
- hulling — the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship, floating partially submerged and supporting the remainder of the ship.
- humanly — in a human manner.
- humayun — 1508–56, Mogul emperor of Hindustan 1530–56 (son of Baber).
- humming — making a droning sound; buzzing.
- humogen — a plant fertilizer
- humping — a rounded protuberance, especially a fleshy protuberance on the back, as that due to abnormal curvature of the spine in humans, or that normally present in certain animals, as the camel or bison.
- humulin — An extract of hops.
- humulon — a bitter constituent of hops, C 21 H 30 O 5 , having antibiotic properties.
- hun-tun — a mythical Chinese being personifying chaos.
- hunched — to thrust out or up in a hump; arch: to hunch one's back.
- hunches — A feeling or guess based on intuition rather than known facts.
- hundred — a cardinal number, ten times ten.
- huneker — James (Gibbons) [gib-uh nz] /ˈgɪb ənz/ (Show IPA), 1860–1921, U.S. music critic and writer.
- hung up — Slang: Vulgar. (of a male) having very large genitals.
- hung-up — beset with psychological problems.