9-letter words containing a, b, u
- 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.
- 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.
- how about — introducing a suggestion
- huckaback — toweling of linen or cotton, of a distinctive absorbent weave.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
- 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.
- immutable — not mutable; unchangeable; changeless.
- immutably — In an immutable manner. In a way that cannot be varied, or changed.
- imputable — to attribute or ascribe: The children imputed magical powers to the old woman.
- imputably — In an imputable manner; by imputation.
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- inaudible — not audible; incapable of being heard.
- inaudibly — not audible; incapable of being heard.
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- incunable — a book constituting part of a collection of incunabula.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- indurable — Archaic form of endurable.
- inequable — uneven
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.
- intraclub — Within a club.
- intubated — Simple past tense and past participle of intubate.
- intubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intubate.
- inumbrate — (obsolete) To shade; to darken.
- 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.
- jazz club — jazz music venue
- jerubbaal — Gideon (def 1).
- jubilance — showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant: the cheers of the jubilant victors; the jubilant climax of his symphony.
- jubilancy — (rare) Jubilation.
- jubilated — to show or feel great joy; rejoice; exult.