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9-letter words containing b, u, h

  • bung-hole — a hole in a cask through which it is filled.
  • bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
  • bunny hop — a jump executed with the feet held tightly together and the knees bent
  • bunny hug — a ballroom dance with syncopated rhythm, popular in America in the early 20th century
  • burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
  • burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
  • burthened — burden1 .
  • bush baby — any of a family (Galagidae) of nocturnal prosimian primates of tropical African forests, with a long, bushy tail and large eyes
  • bush bean — any of various low, erect, bushy forms of the common garden bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
  • bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
  • bush hook — Dialect. a tool with a curved blade and long handle used to cut bushes and undergrowth.
  • bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
  • bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
  • bush wren — a wren, Xenicus longipes, occurring in New Zealand: family Xenicidae
  • bush-bash — to clear scrubland
  • bush-line — the contour at which the growth of the bush ceases
  • bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
  • bushelful — an amount equal to the capacity of a bushel.
  • bushelman — a person who alters or repairs garments; busheler.
  • bushiness — a bushy quality or state
  • bushwhack — to ambush
  • bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
  • butcher's — a look
  • butchered — a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
  • butcherer — a person who butchers
  • butcherly — of or resembling a butcher
  • butchness — the state of being butch
  • buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
  • buthelezi — Mangosouthu Gatsha (ˌmæŋɡəʊˈsuːtuː ˈɡætʃə), known as Chief Buthelezi. born 1928, Zulu leader, chief minister of the KwaZulu territory of South Africa from 1970 until its abolition in 1994; founder of the Inkatha movement and advocate of Zulu autonomy; minister of home affairs (1994–2004)
  • buxtehude — Dietrich (ˈdiːtrɪç). 1637–1707, Danish composer and organist, resident in Germany from 1668, who influenced Bach and Handel
  • chasubles — Plural form of chasuble.
  • chequable — (finance, of an account) On which cheques can be drawn.
  • cherbourg — a port in NW France, on the English Channel. Pop: 25 370 (1999)
  • cherubini — (Maria) Luigi (Carlo Zenobio Salvatore) (luˈiːdʒi). 1760–1842, Italian composer, noted particularly for his church music and his operas.
  • chubbiest — Superlative form of chubby.
  • club hand — a deformity of the hand, analogous to club foot
  • clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
  • clubhouse — A clubhouse is a place where the members of a club, especially a sports club, meet.
  • crush bar — a bar at a theatre for serving drinks during the intervals of a play
  • crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
  • cubbyhole — A cubbyhole is a very small room or space for storing things.
  • debauched — If you describe someone as debauched, you mean they behave in a way that you think is socially unacceptable, for example because they drink a lot of alcohol or have sex with a lot of people.
  • debauchee — a man who leads a life of reckless drinking, promiscuity, and self-indulgence
  • debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
  • debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
  • debouched — Simple past tense and past participle of debouche.
  • debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
  • douchebag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
  • doughball — a small ball of bread dough, cooked in a stew, as an accompaniment to a meal, etc
  • doughboys — Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
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