9-letter words containing b, u, n
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- globulins — Plural form of globulin.
- gong buoy — a buoy in which one or more gongs are struck by hammers that swing freely with the motion of the buoy.
- grubbling — Present participle of grubble.
- gruenberg — Louis, 1884–1964, U.S. pianist and composer, born in Russia.
- grumbling — to murmur or mutter in discontent; complain sullenly.
- guanabana — soursop.
- guanabara — a state in SE Brazil. 452 sq. mi. (1170 sq. km). Capital: Rio de Janeiro.
- guberniya — (in the Soviet Union) an administrative division of the volosts, smaller than a district.
- gun lobby — a group of people who argue for the right of members of the public to be able to own guns
- gunbattle — A gunfight; a battle involving gunfire.
- gunnbjorn — Mount, the highest peak in Greenland, in the SE part. 12,139 feet (3702 meters).
- gunny-bag — a sack made of gunny or burlap.
- gutenberg — Johannes [yoh-hahn-uh s] /yoʊˈhɑn əs/ (Show IPA), (Johann Gensfleisch) c1400–68, German printer: credited with invention of printing from movable type.
- gym bunny — a person who spends a lot of time exercising at a gymnasium
- handbound — (of books) bound by hand.
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- heartburn — an uneasy burning sensation in the stomach, typically extending toward the esophagus, and sometimes associated with the eructation of an acid fluid.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- hellbound — Bound for Hell; damned.
- heuneburg — an excavated prehistoric site in S Germany, near Ulm, consisting chiefly of a great early Iron Age fortification dating mostly to the second half of the first millennium b.c. and indicating that the inhabitants carried on an extensive trade with cities in the eastern Mediterranean.
- hidebound — narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant.
- hindenbug — (humour) A catastrophic, data-destroying bug, after the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster.
- homebound — confined to one's home, especially because of illness.
- honey bun — Also called sticky bun. a sweet spiral-shaped bun, usually with cinnamon, raisins, and nuts, coated with honey or butter and brown sugar.
- hoofbound — (of horses and other hoofed animals) having the heels of the hoofs dry and contracted, causing lameness.
- hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
- husbanded — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.
- ibn-rushd — Averroës
- ibuprofen — a white powder, C 13 H 18 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic.
- imbuement — to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc.: The new political leader was imbued with the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- in public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
- inaudible — not audible; incapable of being heard.
- inaudibly — not audible; incapable of being heard.
- inbounded — Simple past tense and past participle of inbound.
- inburning — burning within
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- incumbent — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- incunable — a book constituting part of a collection of incunabula.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- indirubin — an isomer of indigotin which may be naturally extracted from the Indigo plant of China, and effective in the treatment of leukaemia
- indubious — Not dubious or doubtful; certain.