11-letter words containing b, u, r
- global rule — (in transformational grammar) a rule that makes reference to nonconsecutive stages of a derivation
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- ground ball — a batted ball that rolls or bounces along the ground.
- ground bass — a short fundamental bass part continually repeated throughout a movement.
- ground beam — a reinforced concrete beam for supporting walls, joists, etc., at or near ground level, itself either resting directly upon the ground or supported at both ends by piers.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
- grub street — a street in London, England: formerly inhabited by many impoverished minor writers and literary hacks; now called Milton Street.
- grumblingly — While or as if grumbling.
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- gutter ball — a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.
- gutterblood — a low person of inferior breeding
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard rubber — rubber vulcanized with a large amount of sulfur, usually 25–35 percent, to render it stiff and comparatively inflexible.
- harquebuses — Plural form of harquebus.
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- herbivorous — feeding on plants.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- honor bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- honor-bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
- houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
- housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
- housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- 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.
- hurly-burly — noisy disorder and confusion; commotion; uproar; tumult.
- hurtleberry — whortleberry.
- ibritumomab — A monoclonal antibody which is linked with yttrium-90 as the drug ibritumomab tiuxetan.
- imbursement — (obsolete) The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.
- incumbrance — encumbrance.
- inner-tuber — tuber2 (def 2).
- innumerable — very numerous.
- innumerably — very numerous.
- inobtrusive — unobtrusive.
- insalubrity — unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
- inscrutable — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- inscrutably — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
- insuperable — incapable of being passed over, overcome, or surmounted: an insuperable barrier.
- insuperably — In an insuperable manner.
- inter-urban — of, located in, or operating between two or more cities or towns.