16-letter words containing a, h, u
- hang around with — to associate or socialize with
- hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
- hard put (to it) — having considerable difficulty or trouble
- has the x nature — (From Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an X have the Buddha-nature?") Common hacker construction for "is an X", used for humorous emphasis. "Anyone who can't even use a program with on-screen help embedded in it truly has the loser nature!" See also the X that can be Y is not the true X.
- haussmannization — Georges Eugène [zhawrzh œ-zhen] /ʒɔrʒ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1809–91, French administrator who improved the landscaping, street designs, and utilities systems of Paris.
- have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
- have been around — be experienced
- have issues with — If someone has issues with a particular aspect of their life, they have problems connected with it.
- have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
- haymarket square — a square in Chicago: scene of a riot (Haymarket Riot) in 1886 between police and labor unionists.
- headhunting firm — a recruiting agency
- heads-up display — an electronic display of data from instruments or other sources projected at eye level so that a driver or pilot sees it without looking away from the road or course. Abbreviation: HUD.
- health authority — a government agency that is responsible for NHS care in a particular area
- health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
- health insurance — insurance that compensates the insured for expenses or loss incurred for medical reasons, as through illness or hospitalization.
- health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
- heat of solution — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance dissolves completely in a large volume of solvent
- heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
- hemagglutinating — That causes hemagglutination.
- hemagglutination — the clumping of red blood cells.
- hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- hemopneumothorax — (medicine) pneumothorax and hemothorax occurring together.
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
- heterometabolous — undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
- high-muck-a-muck — an important, influential, or high-ranking person, especially one who is pompous or conceited.
- higher education — education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.
- hit-and-run raid — a raid relying on surprise allied to a rapid departure from the scene of operations for the desired effect
- holier-than-thou — obnoxiously pious; sanctimonious; self-righteous.
- home-equity loan — a loan that uses equity in the borrower's home as collateral.
- homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
- horizontal union — a labor union organized by skills or trades of its members rather than by industries.
- horsehair fungus — an edible white, striated, umbrella-capped mushroom, Marasmius rotula, commonly found in eastern North America.
- horsehead nebula — a dark nebula in the constellation Orion, composed of opaque cosmic dust and resembling the head of a horse.
- horticulturalist — Misspelling of horticulturist.
- hot stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
- hot-cathode tube — thermionic tube.
- hot-stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
- hourglass figure — the shape of a woman who is well-proportioned and has a small waist
- housemaid's knee — inflammation of the bursa over the front of the kneecap.
- housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
- hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
- huevos rancheros — a Latin American dish of eggs, usually fried or poached, topped with a spicy tomato sauce and sometimes served on a fried corn tortilla with the addition of vegetables and cheese.
- huffman encoding — Huffman coding
- humanly possible — feasible, practical
- hundred-year-old — of one hundred years of age
- huntington beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- hurricane season — annual cyclone period
- husayn ali mirza — 1817–92, Persian religious leader: founder of Bahāʾī.
- hybrid perpetual — a type of cultivated rose bred from varieties having vigorous growth and more or less recurrent bloom.