10-letter words containing b, u, h
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- rubythroat — a ruby-throated hummingbird
- rugby head — a male follower of rugby culture
- run a bath — to turn on the taps to fill a bath with water for bathing oneself
- russophobe — a person who hates or fears Russia or the Russians.
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- school bus — a vehicle used to transport students to and from school or used for other related purposes.
- sharpsburg — a town in NW Maryland: nearby is the site of the Civil War battle of Antietam 1862.
- shellbound — encased in, or confined to, a shell
- shield bug — any shield-shaped herbivorous heteropterous insect of the superfamily Pentamoidea, esp any of the family Pentatomidae
- shikibuton — futon.
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- shrewsbury — a city now part of Shrewsbury and Atcham, in Salop, in W England.
- shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- sobhuza ii — 1899–1982, king of Swaziland 1921–82.
- south bend — a city in N Indiana.
- southbound — traveling southward.
- squabasher — a person who squabashes someone or something
- squash bug — a dark-brown bug, Anasa tristis, that sucks the sap from the leaves of squash, pumpkin, and other plants of the gourd family.
- squashable — easily squashed; soft
- sub-branch — a further branch or division of something within an already established branch or division
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- subheading — a subordinate division of a title or heading.
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- sugar bush — an evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, of the cashew family, native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having light yellow flowers in short, dense spikes and hairy, dark-red fruit.
- sunbathing — to take a sunbath.
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- tchoukball — a non-contact, team-orientated, ballgame developed by the Swiss biologist Dr H. Brandt, the object of the game is to throw the ball at a frame mounted with a springy surface so that it rebounds without being caught by the defending team
- tetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the southeastern U.S., having leathery leaves and white to pink flowers.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- the bounce — the start of play at the beginning of each quarter or after a goal
- the buddha — ?563–483 bc, a title applied to Gautama Siddhartha, a nobleman and religious teacher working in N India, regarded by his followers as the most recent rediscoverer of the path to enlightenment: the founder of Buddhism
- the budget — an estimate of British government expenditures and revenues and the financial plans for the ensuing fiscal year presented annually to the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
- the burren — a limestone area on the North Clare coast in the Irish Republic, famous for its wild flowers, caves, and dolmens
- the bushes — rural or small-town districts
- the buskin — tragic drama
- thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
- thimbleful — the amount that a thimble will hold.
- thumbikins — thumbscrews
- thumbpiece — a lever over the hinge on the lid of a tankard, pressed by the thumb to raise the lid.
- thumbprint — a mark or impression of the ventral surface of the last joint of the thumb.
- thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
- thumbstall — a protective sheath of rubber, leather, or the like for the thumb.
- thumbwheel — a small, partially exposed wheel that can be turned with a thumb or finger and is found on various devices such as computers or instruments
- thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
- thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground