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11-letter words containing b, e, u

  • ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
  • ground beef — meat: minced beef
  • grub street — a street in London, England: formerly inhabited by many impoverished minor writers and literary hacks; now called Milton Street.
  • gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
  • gum benzoin — Also called gum benjamin, gum benzoin. a reddish-brown, aromatic balsamic resin occurring in almondlike fragments and having a vanillalike odor, obtained from trees of the genus Styrax, especially S. benzoin, of Java, Sumatra, etc.: used in the manufacture of perfume and cosmetics and in medicine internally as an expectorant and externally as an antiseptic.
  • guttae band — regula.
  • gutter ball — a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.
  • gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
  • hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
  • half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
  • half-bushel — a unit of dry measure equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
  • harbourless — Without a harbour.
  • harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
  • hard rubber — rubber vulcanized with a large amount of sulfur, usually 25–35 percent, to render it stiff and comparatively inflexible.
  • harquebuses — Plural form of harquebus.
  • hash bucket — hash coding
  • hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
  • haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
  • haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
  • headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
  • headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
  • health club — a usually private club that offers its members facilities for exercising and physical conditioning.
  • hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
  • herbivorous — feeding on plants.
  • hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
  • home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
  • homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
  • host number — (networking)   The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
  • house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
  • houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
  • housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
  • housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
  • huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
  • human being — any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
  • humbuggable — capable of being humbugged
  • hunchbacked — humpbacked.
  • hurtleberry — whortleberry.
  • husbandable — Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
  • husbandless — Without a husband.
  • husbandlike — resembling a husband
  • husking bee — a gathering of farm families or friends to husk corn, usually as part of a celebration or party.
  • illaqueable — capable of being ensnared
  • illuminable — capable of being illuminated.
  • imbursement — (obsolete) The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.
  • immune body — antibody
  • implausible — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
  • impulse buy — spur-of-the-moment purchase
  • in business — company: open for trading, etc.
  • in the buff — naked
  • in the club — pregnant
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