9-letter words containing b, u, s, h
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- houseboys — Plural form of houseboy.
- hubristic — excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
- humblesse — humbleness, humility, or abasement
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- 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.
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.
- ibn-rushd — Averroës
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- kuibyshev — a port in the Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- mint bush — an aromatic shrub of the genus Prostanthera with a mintlike odour: family Lamiaceae (labiates): native to Australia
- mouthbows — Plural form of mouthbow.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- overbrush — To brush excessively.
- pea shrub — any of various small trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Caragana, of the legume family, native to central Asia, having showy, usually yellow flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- published — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- publisher — a person or company whose business is the publishing of books, periodicals, engravings, computer software, etc.
- push back — force to retreat
- push bike — A push bike is a bicycle which you move by turning the pedals with your feet.
- push-bike — a standard bicycle, operated by pedals rather than a motor.
- refurbish — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- republish — to publish again: to republish a bestseller in a special illustrated edition.
- rubbishes — worthless, unwanted material that is rejected or thrown out; debris; litter; trash.
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- schomburg — Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.
- schulberg — Budd [buhd] /bʌd/ (Show IPA), 1914–2009, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and scenarist.
- shelburne — William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, William Petty Fizmaurice Lansdowne.
- shibuichi — a Japanese alloy of copper and silver know for its silver-grey and muted blue and green colours, usually used in ornamentation
- shoebrush — a brush used in polishing shoes.
- shore bug — any of various small, predaceous hemipterous insects of the family Saldidae, some of which are burrowers, commonly occurring along grassy shores of ponds, streams, brackish lakes, and seacoasts.
- shrubbery — a planting of shrubs: He hit the croquet ball into the shrubbery.
- shrubland — land covered by shrubs
- shrubless — devoid of shrubs
- shubunkin — a multicoloured goldfish, Carassius auratus, with black spots and red patches
- smokebush — a plant, Cotinus coggygria, with purple leaves and small flowers that turn grey-white before they fall
- snowbrush — a brush for clearing snow (from a car, path, etc)
- southbury — a town in S Connecticut.
- spicebush — Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
- squabbish — rather short and fat or thick
- squawbush — a rank-smelling, sprawling shrub, Rhus trilobata malacophylla, of the cashew family, native to California, having spikes of greenish flowers.
- sub-chief — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- sub-humid — containing a high amount of water or water vapor; noticeably moist: humid air; a humid climate.
- sub-phase — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.