10-letter words containing b, u, h
- body punch — a blow to the body of an opponent
- böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
- boozehound — a person who drinks excessive amounts of alcohol regularly
- borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
- bounderish — having the qualities of a bounder
- bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow
- brachyuran — any decapod crustacean of the group (formerly suborder) Brachyura, which includes the crabs
- branch cut — a method for selecting a single-valued function on a subset of the domain of a multiple-valued function of a complex variable.
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- broadbrush — lacking full detail or information; incomplete or rough
- brockhouse — Bertram Neville, 1918–2003, Canadian physicist: Nobel Prize 1994.
- brought on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brought-on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brunnhilde — the heroine of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs. Compare Siegfried.
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- brush fire — a fire in brushwood
- brush-fire — limited in scope, area, or importance, as some labor disputes or local skirmishes.
- brushwheel — a toothless wheel with bristles attached to its circumference, used to turn another wheel by friction
- bubblehead — a frivolous person
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
- buck teeth — upper front teeth which stick out
- buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
- buddh gaya — a town in NE India, in Bihar: site of the sacred bo tree under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha; pilgrimage centre. Pop: 30 883 (2001)
- buddhahood — the attainment of enlightenment as a Buddha.
- buddhology — the study of Buddha and of Buddhahood.
- buff wheel — a wheel for buffing, consisting of a number of leather or canvas disks.
- bufflehead — a small North American diving duck, Bucephala (or Glaucionetta) albeola: the male has black-and-white plumage and a fluffy head
- buffoonish — resembling or in the manner of a buffoon
- bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
- buggy whip — horsewhip
- bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
- bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
- bull wheel — any large driving gear among smaller gears.
- bullethead — a head considered similar in shape to a bullet, as that of a person with a high, domelike forehead and cranium and short hair.
- bullheaded — blindly stubborn; headstrong
- bum's rush — forcible ejection, as from a gathering
- bumpkinish — like a bumpkin
- bunch pink — sweet william.
- bunchberry — a dwarf variety of dogwood native to North America, Cornus canadensis, having red berries
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- bundeswehr — the armed forces of Germany.
- bunny chow — a dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with curry
- bunny hill — a nursery slope
- burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
- burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
- bush basil — See under basil.