11-letter words containing b, u, s, h
- 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.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hullabaloos — Plural form of hullabaloo.
- 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.
- marsh buggy — swamp buggy.
- melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
- nailbrushes — Plural form of nailbrush.
- native bush — indigenous forest
- nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
- 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.
- purchasable — capable of being bought.
- push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
- quail-brush — a salt-tolerant, silvery gray shrub, Atriplex lentiformis breweri, of the amaranth family, native to southern California.
- rabbitbrush — any of several composite shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having whitish, hairy branches and yellow flowers.
- rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
- refurbisher — a person who refurbishes
- republisher — a person who republishes
- rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
- rhesus baby — a baby suffering from haemolytic disease at birth as its red blood cells (which are Rh positive) have been attacked in the womb by antibodies from its Rh negative mother
- rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
- rubbish bag — a plastic bag for the disposal of household rubbish
- rubbish bin — trash can
- rubbish tip — dump for refuse
- rugby shirt — a knitted pullover sport shirt usually in bold horizontal stripes and having a white collar and neckline placket, styled after the shirts traditionally worn by the members of Rugby teams.
- russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
- scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- scrub brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles for scrubbing.
- semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
- shabu-shabu — a Japanese dish of thinly sliced meat and vegetables boiled quickly in broth and served with various dipping sauces.
- shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
- shea butter — a solid, greenish, yellowish, or whitish fat derived from the seeds of the shea tree, used for food and in the manufacture of soaps and candles.
- shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
- shrubberied — having a shrubbery
- shutter-bug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- shuttle bus — a bus that travels regularly between two places
- southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
- spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.