11-letter words containing c, h, u, b
- copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
- cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- debauchedly — In a debauched manner.
- debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- double chin — a fold of fat beneath the chin.
- doublecheck — Alternative form of double-check.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- fine bouche — a refined taste; educated palate.
- four-h club — an organization sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, established chiefly to instruct young people, originally in rural areas, in modern farming methods and other useful skills, as carpentry and home economics.
- hash bucket — hash coding
- haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- health club — a usually private club that offers its members facilities for exercising and physical conditioning.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
- hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
- hunchbacked — humpbacked.
- in the club — pregnant
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucha libre — a form of freestyle wrestling originating in Mexico
- luckenbooth — a booth or shop capable of being locked up
- lunch break — pause for midday meal
- mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
- nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
- on the club — away from work due to sickness, esp when receiving sickness benefit
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- purchasable — capable of being bought.
- 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.
- sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
- thumbsucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- touch rugby — a limited-contact version of rugby in which players seek to evade being touched (rather than tackled) while in possession of the ball
- turbocharge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
- unblenching — not blenching or turning aside; unflinching
- uncatchable — to seize or capture, especially after pursuit: to catch a criminal; to catch a runaway horse.
- uncheckable — not able to be restrained
- unchoosable — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- uncrushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.