10-letter words containing u, n, o
- honorius i — died a.d. 638, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 625–638.
- honourable — (British spelling) Alternative form of honorable.
- honourably — (British) In a honourable manner.
- honourless — Without honour; dishonourable or dishonoured.
- horrendous — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- hot button — exciting strong feelings; highly charged; emotional: hot-button issues.
- hot number — sth popular
- hot-button — exciting strong feelings; highly charged; emotional: hot-button issues.
- hothousing — Present participle of hothouse.
- hounsfield — ˈGodfrey Newˌbold (ˈnuˌboʊld ) ; no̅oˈbōldˌ) 1919-2004; Brit. engineer & inventor: developed the CAT scanner
- hour angle — the angle, measured westward through 360°, between the celestial meridian of an observer and the hour circle of a celestial body.
- housatonic — a river flowing S from NW Massachusetts through SW Connecticut to Long Island Sound near Stratford, Connecticut. 148 miles (240 km) long.
- house wine — a wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- house wren — a common American wren, Troglodytes aedon, that nests around houses.
- house-hunt — to search for a house to buy or rent
- housebound — restricted to the house, as by bad weather or illness.
- houseclean — to subject (a house, room, etc.) to housecleaning.
- housefront — the façade of a house
- houselling — administration of the Eucharist
- housephone — a telephone, used for making calls within a hotel or apartment house, that does not have a direct line to an exchange and whose calls are routed through the building's switchboard.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- houstonian — a native or resident of Houston, Texas.
- houstonias — Plural form of houstonia.
- hu yaobang — 1915–89, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party 1981–87.
- hucklebone — hipbone.
- huddleston — (Ernest Urban) Trevor, 1913–1998, English Anglican archbishop and antiapartheid activist in Africa.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
- humaniform — Like a human or that of a human in form, seeming, or appearance.
- humdudgeon — an imaginary illness
- hung up on — simple past tense and past participle of hang.
- hunky-dory — about as well as one could wish or expect; satisfactory; fine; OK.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- huntiegowk — a fool's errand or a person sent on an April fool's errand
- huntingdon — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
- huntington — Collis Potter, 1821–1900, U.S. railroad developer.
- huntswoman — Feminine form of huntsman.
- huntswomen — Plural form of huntswoman.
- hush money — a bribe to keep someone silent about something, especially to keep the receiver from exposing a scandal.
- hutchinson — Anne Marbury [mahr-buh-ree] /ˈmɑr bə ri/ (Show IPA), 1591–1643, American religious liberal, born in England: banished from Massachusetts 1637.
- hyaluronic — Of or pertaining to hyaluronic acid or its derivatives.
- hypogenous — growing beneath, or on the undersurface, as fungi on leaves.
- hypogynous — situated on the receptacle beneath the pistil and free of the ovary, as stamens, petals, or sepals.
- hyponymous — a term that denotes a subcategory of a more general class: “Chair” and “table” are hyponyms of “furniture.”. Compare superordinate (def 4).
- hypotenuse — the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
- ice tongue — a section of ice projecting from the base of a glacier.
- id nouveau — A dataflow language by Arvind <[email protected]> and R.S. Nikhil <[email protected]>, MIT LCS, ca. 1986. Id Nouveau began as a functional language, added streams, resource managers and I-structures (mutable arrays). Loops are syntactic sugar for tail recursion. See also Id.
- igniferous — (rare) Producing fire.
- ignivomous — (archaic) Throwing out fire, as a volcano does.