9-letter words containing a, b, u, s
- excusably — In an excusable manner or to an excusable degree.
- fabaceous — belonging to the Fabaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Leguminosae.
- fabricius — Johan Christian [yoh-hahn kris-chuh n;; Danish yoh-hahn kris-tyahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkrɪs tʃən;; Danish yoʊˈhɑn ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1743–1808, Danish entomologist.
- fabritius — Carel [kah-ruh l] /ˈkɑ rəl/ (Show IPA), 1622–54, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- fabulists — Plural form of fabulist.
- fast buck — money made easily or quickly and sometimes unscrupulously: He speculated briefly in the commodities market in the hope of making a fast buck.
- 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.
- focusable — Capable of being focused.
- fullbacks — Plural form of fullback.
- funabashi — a city in E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay.
- gadabouts — Plural form of gadabout.
- galesburg — a city in NW Illinois.
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- grass bug — any of various hemipterous insects of the family Rhopalidae that feed chiefly on grasses and occasionally on certain trees, as the box elder.
- grubstake — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- guessable — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
- hairbrush — a brush for smoothing and styling the hair.
- 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
- 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).
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- 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.
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- intubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intubate.
- isobutane — a colorless, flammable gas, C 4 H 10 , used as a fuel, as a refrigerant, and in the manufacture of gasoline by alkylation.
- istambuli — a native or inhabitant of Istanbul.
- jambuster — (Canada, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario) A doughnut filled with jam.
- jubilates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jubilate.
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- keansburg — a town in E New Jersey.
- laborious — requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking.
- labourers — Plural form of labourer.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- labourous — Obsolete form of laborious.
- laburnums — any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum, of the legume family, having elongated clusters of pendulous yellow flowers, especially L. alpinum, the Scotch laburnum.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.