12-letter words containing b, u, s, h
- bushelbasket — a rounded basket with a capacity of one bushel
- bushfighting — fighting in the bush
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- bushy-tailed — bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, fresh, alert, eager, and lively
- busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
- butcher shop — a shop in which meat, poultry, and sometimes fish are sold.
- butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
- carbon brush — a small block of carbon used to convey current between the stationary and moving parts of an electric generator, motor, etc
- chambersburg — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- chapeau bras — a small three-cornered hat, worn by gentlemen in full dress in the 18th century, that could be folded flat and carried under the arm.
- charlesbourg — city in S Quebec, Canada: pop. 71,000
- chartbusters — Plural form of chartbuster.
- cheeseburger — A cheeseburger is a flat round piece of cooked meat called a burger with a slice of cheese on top, served in a bread roll.
- child abuser — someone who abuses a child, esp someone convicted of this
- chiliburgers — Plural form of chiliburger.
- chinese burn — a minor torture inflicted by twisting the skin of a person's wrist or arm in two different directions simultaneously
- clothesbrush — A brush for the clothes.
- crushability — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- debaucheries — Plural form of debauchery.
- debaucherous — tending toward or involving debauchery, or excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures: a night of debaucherous fun.
- disburthened — Simple past tense and past participle of disburthen.
- dishabituate — to cause to be no longer habituated or accustomed.
- double sharp — a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- duchesse bed — a bed having a suspended, full-length tester.
- gainsborough — Thomas, 1727–88, English painter.
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- ghostbusters — Plural form of ghostbuster.
- habitualness — The characteristic of being habitual.
- harbour dues — the fees or charges paid for using a harbour
- harbour seal — a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: found off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
- harquebusier — a soldier armed with a harquebus.
- harrisonburg — a city in N Virginia.
- hebetudinous — the state of being dull; lethargy.
- heliogabalus — (Varius Avitus Bassianus"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus") a.d. 204–222, Roman emperor 218–222.
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- higgs bugson — (humour) A hypothetical bug predicted to exist based on a small number of possibly related event log entries and vague anecdotal user reports. The Higgs Bugson is difficult to reproduce because you don't really know if it's there, and if it is there what is causing it. To find one you will need a Large Hadron Debugger.
- hillsborough — a town in W California.
- hobblebushes — Plural form of hobblebush.
- homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
- housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
- househusband — a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household.
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- hubertusburg — a castle in E Germany, E of Leipzig: treaty ending the Seven Years' War signed here 1763.
- hummingbirds — Plural form of hummingbird.
- hunt sabbing — the activity of sabotaging a hunt due to the belief that animals should not be harmed by humans
- johannesburg — a city in S Transvaal, in the NE Republic of South Africa.
- just the job — If you say that something is just the job, you mean that it is exactly what you wanted or needed.