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11-letter words containing b, u, h

  • human being — any individual of the genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens.
  • humbuggable — capable of being humbugged
  • hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
  • hunchbacked — humpbacked.
  • hunt button — a button engraved with the insignia of one's hunt and worn on the coat and vest as part of the hunt uniform.
  • hurly-burly — noisy disorder and confusion; commotion; uproar; tumult.
  • hurtleberry — whortleberry.
  • husbandable — Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.
  • husbandland — the holding once held by a husband or tenant farmer or the quantity of land held by him, approximately 32 acres
  • 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.
  • ibn khaldun — Abd-al-Rahman [ahb-dahl-rah-mahn] /ɑb dɑlˈrɑ mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.
  • ibn-khaldun — 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar (Book of Examples) is a history of Islam
  • in the buff — naked
  • in the club — pregnant
  • job hunting — the activity of searching for employment
  • judeophobia — Alternative case form of Judeophobia.
  • kublai khan — 1216–94, khan c1260–94: founder of the Mongol dynasty in China (grandson of Genghis Khan).
  • lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
  • lucha libre — a form of freestyle wrestling originating in Mexico
  • luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
  • lumber with — If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you.
  • lunch break — pause for midday meal
  • mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
  • marlboroughJohn Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
  • marsh buggy — swamp buggy.
  • maryborough — a seaport in E Australia.
  • melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
  • nailbrushes — Plural form of nailbrush.
  • native bush — indigenous forest
  • neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
  • north-bound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
  • northumbria — an early English kingdom extending N from the Humber to the Firth of Forth.
  • nothing but — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
  • nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
  • on the club — away from work due to sickness, esp when receiving sickness benefit
  • overburthen — to overburden
  • photo album — bound book for photos
  • pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
  • prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
  • publishable — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
  • publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
  • publishment — publication.
  • pukka sahib — (in British India) a term of respectful address used to British colonial authorities.
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
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