9-letter words containing a, b, u
- fabulator — a person who fabulates, a story-teller
- fabulists — Plural form of fabulist.
- farcy bud — an ulcerated swelling, produced in farcy.
- faribault — a city in SE Minnesota.
- 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.
- febricula — a slight and short fever, especially when of obscure causation.
- feuerbach — Ludwig Andreas [ahn-drey-uh s,, an-;; German ahn-drey-ahs] /ɑnˈdreɪ əs,, æn-;; German ɑnˈdreɪ ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1804–72, German philosopher.
- figurable — Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
- flabellum — a fan, especially one used in religious ceremonies.
- flambeaux — a flaming torch.
- 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.
- foul ball — a batted ground ball that is hit and played outside the foul lines, or that passes outside the foul lines at first or third base, or that is played outside the foul line between home and first or third base regardless of where hit.
- fruit bat — any fruit-eating bat, especially of the suborder Megachiroptera, of tropical regions throughout the Old World, typically having erect, catlike ears and large eyes adapted for night vision, and either tailless or with a rudimentary tail, the numerous species ranging in wingspan from 10 inches to 5 feet (25 cm to 1.5 meters).
- full beam — the brightest light transmitted from car headlights
- full-back — sports; player , position
- fullbacks — Plural form of fullback.
- funabashi — a city in E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay.
- furbearer — any furry animal, especially one whose fur is of commercial value.
- futabatei — Shimei [shee-mey] /ʃiˈmeɪ/ (Show IPA), (Tatsunosuke Hasegawa) 1864–1909, Japanese author.
- 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.
- gaugeable — Capable of being gauged.
- get about — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- glabellum — glabella.
- gluggable — (of wine) easy and pleasant to drink
- 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.
- groupable — Capable of being grouped together.
- grub beam — a curved, laminated wooden beam forming part of a rounded stern.
- grubstake — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- guanabana — soursop.
- guanabara — a state in SE Brazil. 452 sq. mi. (1170 sq. km). Capital: Rio de Janeiro.
- guayabera — a sport shirt or lightweight jacket, often with several large front pockets, modeled upon a loose, smocklike shirt originally worn by men in Cuba.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- 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.
- gunbattle — A gunfight; a battle involving gunfire.
- gunny-bag — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
- 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.