11-letter words containing hu
- huitlacoche — Corn smut prepared as a delicacy.
- hull girder — the theoretical box girder formed by the continuous longitudinal members of the hull of a ship, providing resistance to hogging and sagging.
- hullaballoo — Alternative spelling of hullabaloo.
- hullabaloos — Plural form of hullabaloo.
- hully gully — a dance that is a modification of the frug.
- hum and haw — If you hem and haw, or in British English hum and haw, you take a long time to say something because you cannot think of the right words, or because you are not sure what to say.
- human being — any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
- human error — sb's mistake
- humbuggable — capable of being humbugged
- humectation — A moistening.
- humidifiers — Plural form of humidifier.
- humidifying — Present participle of humidify.
- humidistats — Plural form of humidistat.
- humiliating — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- humiliation — an act or instance of humiliating or being humiliated.
- humiliative — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- humming top — a top that hums as it spins
- hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
- humoresques — Plural form of humoresque.
- humorlessly — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humouristic — Alternative spelling of humoristic.
- humourously — (UK, uncommon, nonstandard) alternative spelling of humorously.
- humperdinck — Engelbert [eng-uh l-bert;; English eng-guh l-burt] /ˈɛŋ əlˌbɛrt;; English ˈɛŋ gəlˌbɜrt/ (Show IPA), 1854–1921, German composer.
- hunchbacked — humpbacked.
- hundredfold — a hundred times as great or as much.
- hunker down — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hunt button — a button engraved with the insignia of one's hunt and worn on the coat and vest as part of the hunt uniform.
- hurdle race — a race in which people have to jump over a number of obstacles while running
- hurdle rate — the rate of return that a proposed project must provide if it is to be worth considering: usually calculated as the cost of the capital involved adjusted by a risk factor
- hurdy-gurdy — a barrel organ or similar musical instrument played by turning a crank.
- hurly-burly — noisy disorder and confusion; commotion; uproar; tumult.
- hurriedness — The state of being hurried.
- hurry along — rush, go quickly
- hurtfulness — The property of being hurtful.
- hurtleberry — whortleberry.
- husbandable — Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
- husbandland — the holding once held by a husband or tenant farmer or the quantity of land held by him, approximately 32 acres
- husbandless — Without a husband.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- husk tomato — ground cherry (def 1).
- husk-tomato — ground-cherry
- husking bee — a gathering of farm families or friends to husk corn, usually as part of a celebration or party.
- in no hurry — If you are in no hurry to do something, you are very unwilling to do it.
- in the hunt — If a team or competitor is in the hunt for something, they still have a chance of winning it.
- inhumanness — Quality of being inhuman.
- interchurch — interdenominational.
- ixtacihuatl — volcanic mountain in central Mexico, southeast of Mexico City: 17,343 ft (5,286 m)
- job hunting — the activity of searching for employment
- joshua tree — an evergreen tree, Yucca brevifolia, growing in arid or desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having long, twisted branches.
- jure humano — by human law.