6-letter words containing hu
- hummer — a person or thing that hums.
- hummum — A Turkish bath.
- hummus — Middle Eastern Cookery. a paste or dip made of chickpeas mashed with oil, garlic, lemon juice, and tahini and usually eaten with pita.
- humors — Plural form of humor.
- humour — hacker humour
- humped — having a hump.
- humpen — a round drinking glass formerly made in Germany
- humper — 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.
- humpie — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
- humpty — a low padded seat; pouffe
- humusy — (of soil) rich in humus
- humvee — a military vehicle that combines the features of a jeep with those of a light truck.
- hunged — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of hang.
- hunger — a compelling need or desire for food.
- hungry — having a desire, craving, or need for food; feeling hunger.
- hungus — (jargon) /huhng'g*s/ (Perhaps related to slang "humongous") Large, unwieldy, usually unmanageable. E.g. "TCP is a hungus piece of code."
- hunker — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hunkey — (US, pejorative) A Hungarian (or, more generally, eastern European) labourer.
- hunkie — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Hungarian or Slavic descent, especially an unskilled or semiskilled worker.
- hunted — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- huntee — One who is hunted.
- hunter — John, 1728–93, Scottish surgeon, physiologist, and biologist.
- huppah — a canopy under which the Jewish marriage ceremony is performed.
- hurdle — a portable barrier over which contestants must leap in certain running races, usually a wooden frame with a hinged inner frame that swings down under impact to prevent injury to a runner who does not clear it.
- hurkle — (intransitive) to draw in the parts of the body, especially with pain or cold.
- hurled — to throw or fling with great force or vigor.
- hurler — to throw or fling with great force or vigor.
- hurley — the game of hurling.
- hurple — (Scotland) An impediment similar to a limp.
- hurrah — to shout “hurrah.”.
- hurray — to shout “hurrah.”.
- hursts — Plural form of hurst.
- hurted — (archaic, or, nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of hurt.
- hurter — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- hurtle — to rush violently; move with great speed: The car hurtled down the highway.
- husain — Hussein (def 1).
- hushed — Having a calm and still silence.
- husher — to become or be silent or quiet: They hushed as the judge walked in.
- hushes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hush.
- husked — Simple past tense and past participle of husk.
- husker — the dry external covering of certain fruits or seeds, especially of an ear of corn.
- hussar — (originally) one of a body of Hungarian light cavalry formed during the 15th century.
- hustle — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
- huston — John, 1906–87, U.S. film director and writer.
- hutong — A narrow lane or alleyway in a traditional residential area of a Chinese city, especially Beijing.
- hutted — Simple past tense and past participle of hut.
- hutter — Someone who lives in a hut.
- hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
- hutzpa — unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall.
- huxley — Aldous (Leonard) [awl-duh s] /ˈɔl dəs/ (Show IPA), 1894–1963, English novelist, essayist, and critic.