10-letter words containing b, u
- goosebumps — Plural form of goosebump.
- gorse bush — a gorse plant
- gothenburg — Göteborg.
- graubunden — German name of Grisons.
- greensburg — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- ground bug — any member of a family (Lygaeidae) of hemipterous plant-eating insects, having generally dark bodies, sometimes marked with red, and lighter, yellowish wings
- groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
- groundball — Alternative form of ground ball.
- grub screw — headless metal bolt
- grubbiness — dirty; slovenly: children with grubby faces and sad eyes.
- grubstaked — Simple past tense and past participle of grubstake.
- grubstaker — provisions, gear, etc., furnished to a prospector on condition of participating in the profits of any discoveries.
- grubstakes — Plural form of grubstake.
- grubstreet — produced by a hack; poor in quality: a grubstreet book.
- grumblings — Plural form of grumbling.
- guard band — an unassigned range of radio frequencies either just above or just below the band of frequencies required for the signal transmitted by a broadcasting station. It helps to prevent interference in receivers between signals from different stations.
- gubernator — a governor
- guest beer — a draught beer stocked by a bar, often for a limited period, in addition to its usual range
- guest book — (web) The electronic equivalent of the physical notebooks found in some small hotels, in which visitors can write their names, comments and suggestions for the benefit of the proprietors and future visitors or purely for posterity. The electronic version is a form on a website into which users can enter similar details for display on the site.
- guideboard — a large board or sign, usually mounted on a post, giving directions to travelers.
- guidebooks — Plural form of guidebook.
- gulbenkian — Calouste Sarkis (kæˈluːst ˈsɑːkɪz). 1869–1955, British industrialist, born in Turkey. He endowed the international Gulbenkian Foundation for the advancement of the arts, science, and education
- gum arabic — a water-soluble, gummy exudate obtained from the acacia tree, especially Acacia senegal, used as an emulsifier, an adhesive, in inks, and in pharmaceuticals.
- gum nebula — a large, almost circular, emission nebula in the constellation Vela and Puppis. Thought to be the remains of a supernova explosion 1 million years ago, it is estimated to lie 1300 light years away
- gun barrel — firearm: tube-shaped part
- gun battle — a violent fight between groups of people in which guns are used
- gut-bucket — jazz played in the raucous and high-spirited style of barrelhouse.
- gutbuckets — Plural form of gutbucket.
- habitaunce — a place where a person or an animal lives or resides
- habitually — of the nature of a habit; fixed by or resulting from habit: habitual courtesy.
- habituated — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
- habituates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of habituate.
- half-bound — bound in half binding.
- hamburgers — Plural form of hamburger.
- hand-bound — (of books) bound by hand.
- hang about — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- harbourage — (British, nautical) A place for refuge for a vessel.
- harbourful — the amount that a harbour can hold
- harbouring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard-bound — hardcover
- harquebuse — Alternative form of harquebus.
- harrisburg — a state in the E United States. 45,333 sq. mi. (117,410 sq. km). Capital: Harrisburg. Abbreviation: PA (for use with zip code), Pa., Penn., Penna.
- haubergeon — a short, sleeveless coat of mail.
- herbaceous — of, relating to, or characteristic of an herb; herblike.
- herbariums — Plural form of herbarium.
- hereabouts — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- hibiscuses — Plural form of hibiscus.
- hindenburg — Paul von [pawl von;; German poul fuh n] /pɔl vɒn;; German paʊl fən/ (Show IPA), (Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg) 1847–1934, German field marshal; 2nd president of Germany 1925–34.
- hobblebush — a North American shrub, Viburnum alnifolium, of the honeysuckle family, having flat-topped clusters of white flowers and red-to-black berrylike fruit.
- home-built — built at home