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9-letter words containing a, b, u, h

  • bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
  • bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
  • bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
  • bush-bash — to clear scrubland
  • bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
  • bushelman — a person who alters or repairs garments; busheler.
  • bushwhack — to ambush
  • bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
  • chasubles — Plural form of chasuble.
  • chequable — (finance, of an account) On which cheques can be drawn.
  • club hand — a deformity of the hand, analogous to club foot
  • clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
  • crush bar — a bar at a theatre for serving drinks during the intervals of a play
  • crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
  • debauched — If you describe someone as debauched, you mean they behave in a way that you think is socially unacceptable, for example because they drink a lot of alcohol or have sex with a lot of people.
  • debauchee — a man who leads a life of reckless drinking, promiscuity, and self-indulgence
  • debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
  • debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
  • douchebag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
  • doughball — a small ball of bread dough, cooked in a stew, as an accompaniment to a meal, etc
  • dust bath — the action of a bird of driving dust into its feathers, which may dislodge parasites
  • dyushambe — a former name of Dushanbe.
  • euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
  • eurobeach — a beach that has been designated as suitable for bathing from because it meets the limits set by European Union regulations for bacteria in bathing areas
  • feuerbach — Ludwig Andreas [ahn-drey-uh s,, an-;; German ahn-drey-ahs] /ɑnˈdreɪ əs,, æn-;; German ɑnˈdreɪ ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1804–72, German philosopher.
  • flashbulb — a glass bulb, filled with oxygen and aluminum or zirconium wire or foil, which, when ignited electrically, burns with a brilliant flash to provide momentary illumination of a subject.
  • flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
  • flashtube — electronic flash.
  • flushable — (of a toilet) That has a flushing mechanism.
  • funabashi — a city in E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay.
  • habituate — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
  • hair bulb — the end of a hair follicle containing active hair-growing cells; situated under the skin
  • hairbrush — a brush for smoothing and styling the hair.
  • half buck — a half dollar; the sum of 50 cents.
  • half-blue — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
  • half-butt — a snooker cue longer than an ordinary cue, usually used with a long rest
  • hamburger — a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground or chopped beef, usually in a roll or bun, variously garnished.
  • hammurabi — 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia.
  • handbound — (of books) bound by hand.
  • hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
  • harborous — welcoming and offering hospitality
  • harboured — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
  • harbourer — A person who harbours another.
  • hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
  • harquebus — any of several small-caliber long guns operated by a matchlock or wheel-lock mechanism, dating from about 1400.
  • hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
  • head-butt — strike sb with your forehead
  • heartburn — an uneasy burning sensation in the stomach, typically extending toward the esophagus, and sometimes associated with the eructation of an acid fluid.
  • herbarium — a collection of dried plants systematically arranged.
  • hereabout — about this place; in this neighborhood.
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