10-letter words containing u, n, r, s, h
- honourless — Without honour; dishonourable or dishonoured.
- horrendous — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- house wren — a common American wren, Troglodytes aedon, that nests around houses.
- housefront — the façade of a house
- housetrain — To teach a house pet to urinate and defecate outside or in a designated location in the home.
- humdingers — Plural form of humdinger.
- hundredths — Plural form of hundredth.
- hungriness — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- huntmaster — (chiefly, fantasy) The leader of a hunt.
- huntresses — Plural form of huntress.
- hurricanes — Plural form of hurricane.
- hursinghar — night jasmine (def 1).
- krummhorns — Plural form of krummhorn.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- lunchrooms — Plural form of lunchroom.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- michurinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Ryazan.
- nail brush — small brush for cleaning finger- and toe-nails
- neighbours — Plural form of neighbour.
- nordhausen — a city in central Germany: site of a former Nazi concentration camp.
- nourishing — promoting or sustaining life, growth, or strength: a nourishing diet.
- nursehound — a species of European dogfish, Scyliorrhinus caniculus
- oberhausen — a city in W Germany, in the lower Ruhr valley.
- one's hour — a time of success, fame, etc
- oudtshoorn — a city in the S Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- pen pusher — pencil pusher.
- pen-pusher — pencil pusher.
- purchasing — buying
- 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.
- 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.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- 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
- 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