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12-letter words containing b, h, u, t

  • bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
  • bushfighting — fighting in the bush
  • bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
  • busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
  • butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
  • butter cloth — a type of open, unsized muslin
  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
  • buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
  • chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
  • clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
  • club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
  • crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
  • disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
  • dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
  • double cloth — a cloth used in overcoating, blankets, brocade, etc., made by interweaving two physically discrete fabrics at various points in the pattern by bringing warp and fill yarns from each through the other to be worked on the opposite face of the compound fabric.
  • double dutch — a form of the game of jump rope in which two persons, holding the respective ends of two long jump ropes, swing them in a synchronized fashion, usually directed inward so the ropes are going in opposite directions, for one or two others to jump over.
  • double hitch — a Blackwall hitch with an extra upper loop passed around the hook.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
  • draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
  • draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
  • dutch belted — one of a breed of black dairy cattle, raised originally in the Netherlands, having a broad white band encircling the body.
  • dutch borneo — the former name of the southern and larger part of the island of Borneo: now part of Indonesia.
  • dutch harbor — a U.S. naval base on Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian Islands.
  • gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
  • ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
  • habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
  • heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
  • hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
  • honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
  • hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
  • humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
  • humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
  • hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
  • hypermutable — Of or in a state in which mutation is abnormally frequent.
  • in (the) bud — in the time of budding
  • interborough — between boroughs.
  • just the job — If you say that something is just the job, you mean that it is exactly what you wanted or needed.
  • lady's-thumb — a smartweed, Polygonum persicaria, of the buckwheat family, having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot resembling a thumbprint.
  • leatherbound — Bound in leather.
  • lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
  • miss the bus — lose opportunity
  • mouthbreeder — any of several fishes of the genera Tilapia and Haplochromis, that hatch and care for their young in the mouth.
  • mouthbrooder — A freshwater cichlid fish that protects its eggs (and in some cases its young) by carrying them in its mouth.
  • mustard bath — a supposed cure for aches, tired muscles, colds and fevers, consisting of bathing in hot water infused with mustard seeds
  • naughty bits — genitals
  • nightclubber — One who visits a nightclub.
  • northborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
  • northumbrian — of or relating to Northumbria, Northumberland, or the inhabitants or dialect of either.
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