9-letter words starting with hu
- humourous — (chiefly, UK, uncommon, nonstandard) alternative spelling of humorous.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- humphries — (John) Barry. born 1934, Australian comic actor and writer, best known for creating the character Dame Edna Everage
- humungous — humongous.
- hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
- hundredal — Of or pertaining to a hundred (administrative unit).
- hundreder — An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred (administrative subdivision).
- hundredth — next after the ninety-ninth; being the ordinal number for 100.
- hung jury — a jury that cannot agree on a verdict.
- hung over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hungarian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Hungary, its people, or their language.
- hungerful — hungry
- hungering — Present participle of hunger.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hunkering — to squat on one's heels (often followed by down).
- hunkerism — a member of the conservative faction in the Democratic Party in New York State, 1845–48.
- hunt down — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- hunt's-up — (formerly) a call played on a hunting horn in the morning to rouse and assemble the participants in a hunt.
- hunteress — Obsolete form of huntress.
- huntsmans — (Australia) Plural form of huntsman, in the sense of a spider.
- huon gulf — a gulf of the Solomon Sea, on the E coast of New Guinea.
- huon pine — a coniferous tree, Dacrydium franklinii, of Tasmania, having very small cones and yielding timber.
- hurrahing — to shout “hurrah.”.
- hurricane — a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- hurriedly — moving or working rapidly, especially forced or required to hurry, as a person.
- hurtfully — In a hurtful manner.
- husbanded — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hush-hush — highly secret or confidential: a hush-hush political investigation.
- hushpuppy — a snack of deep-fried cornmeal bread
- huskiness — big and strong; burly.
- huskisson — William, 1770–1830, British statesman and financier.
- hussein i — 1935–1999, king of Jordan 1953–99.
- hustle up — to prepare quickly
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- hutterite — a member of an Anabaptist sect following the principles of Jacob Hutter (d. 1536) of Moravia and practicing community of goods and nonconformity.