10-letter words containing b, u
- homebuyers — Plural form of homebuyer.
- honeybunch — honey (def 6, 7).
- honeybunny — A term of endearment; honey, sweetheart.
- honourable — (British spelling) Alternative form of honorable.
- honourably — (British) In a honourable manner.
- hot button — exciting strong feelings; highly charged; emotional: hot-button issues.
- hot number — sth popular
- hot-button — exciting strong feelings; highly charged; emotional: hot-button issues.
- houseboats — Plural form of houseboat.
- housebound — restricted to the house, as by bad weather or illness.
- housebreak — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housebroke — Simple past form of housebreak.
- hu yaobang — 1915–89, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party 1981–87.
- hucklebone — hipbone.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- huebnerite — a reddish-brown mineral of the wolframite group, manganese tungstate, MnWO 4 , a minor ore of tungsten.
- hullabaloo — a clamorous noise or disturbance; uproar.
- human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
- humberside — a county in NE England. 1356 sq. mi. (3525 sq. km).
- humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- humblebrag — a statement intended as a boast or brag but disguised by a humble apology, complaint, etc.
- humbleness — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humblingly — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- humbuggery — pretense; sham.
- humbugging — Present participle of humbug.
- hump bluey — to carry one's bundle; tramp
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- hunchbacks — Plural form of hunchback.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- hurlbarrow — a wheelbarrow
- hurlyburly — (archaic) A noisy and disorderly tumult and confusion, especially as of battle.
- husbandage — the fees and commissions of a ship's manager.
- husbanding — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbandman — a farmer.
- husbandmen — Plural form of husbandman.
- hypercubes — Plural form of hypercube.
- i doubt it — a card game, the object of which is to rid oneself of all cards, in which the first player places aces face down on the table and the others follow, in turn, with cards of the next lower rank, adding at will other cards, except that if such deception is successfully challenged, the player must pick up all the cards then on the table.
- ibn-batuta — 1304–?68, Arab traveller, who wrote the Rihlah, an account of his travels (1325–54) in Africa and Asia
- ice bucket — a cylindrical container for holding ice to use in drinks or to keep a wine bottle cold.
- illaudable — unworthy of praise; not laudable.
- image tube — an electron tube that receives a pattern of radiation, as infrared, ultraviolet, or x-ray, on a photosensitive surface and reproduces the pattern on a fluorescent screen.
- immunoblot — a technique used to transfer a pattern of proteins
- impugnable — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- in numbers — in large numbers; numerously
- in the bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- in trouble — facing punishment
- inarguable — not arguable: Her conclusion is so obvious as to be inarguable.
- inarguably — not arguable: Her conclusion is so obvious as to be inarguable.
- includable — to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
- includible — to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.