12-letter words containing b, u, h
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- golden bough — a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- half-cup bra — a bra that covers three-quarters of the breasts rather than all of the breasts
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- heartburning — rankling discontent, especially from envy or jealousy; grudge.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
- higgs bugson — (humour) A hypothetical bug predicted to exist based on a small number of possibly related event log entries and vague anecdotal user reports. The Higgs Bugson is difficult to reproduce because you don't really know if it's there, and if it is there what is causing it. To find one you will need a Large Hadron Debugger.
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hobblebushes — Plural form of hobblebush.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- homebuilding — the designing or constructing of houses.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honour-bound — morally obliged
- horizon club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members of high-school age.
- hour by hour — each hour
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- hull balance — (of a sailing ship) the property of maintaining satisfactory trim and steering qualities when heeled at a normal angle.
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- humboldt bay — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in NW California.
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- 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.
- ibizan hound — one of a breed of medium-sized, tall, swift hunting hounds with a short, usually red and white coat, bred originally by the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt but today found chiefly in the Balearic Islands and other areas of Spain.
- in (the) bud — in the time of budding
- ingleborough — a mountain in N England, in North Yorkshire: potholes. Height: 723 m (2373 ft)
- interborough — between boroughs.
- jiaozhou bay — an inlet of the Yellow Sea in NE China, in SE Shandong province
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- johor baharu — a city in S Malaysia, near Singapore.
- johore bahru — a city in and the capital of Johore state, Malaysia, in the S part.
- 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.
- laguna beach — a town in S California.
- leatherbound — Bound in leather.