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9-letter words containing h, a, u

  • bachelour — Obsolete form of bachelor.
  • backhouse — an outdoor privy; outhouse
  • bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
  • bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
  • badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
  • bahaullah — Husayn ʿAlī Mīrzā.
  • bahuvrihi — a class of compound words consisting of two elements the first of which is a specific feature of the second
  • bakehouse — a building or room to bake in; bakery.
  • bakuchiol — A meroterpene phenol, extracted from seeds of Psoralea corylifolia, that shows antimicrobial activity.
  • barathrum — any deep abyss
  • barouches — Plural form of barouche.
  • bashfully — In a bashful manner.
  • bathhouse — A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths and often other facilities such as a sauna.
  • bathybius — a gelatinous substance discovered on the Atlantic seabed, originally thought to be protoplasm, but later discovered to be inorganic
  • batu khan — d. 1255, Mongol conqueror: leader of the Golden Horde (grandson of Genghis Khan).
  • bauhinias — Plural form of bauhinia.
  • beach bum — If you refer to someone as a beach bum, you mean that they spend a lot of time enjoying themselves on the beach or in the sea.
  • beach hut — a hut used for changing, storing deckchairs, etc
  • beadflush — (of paneling) having panels flush with their stiles and rails and surrounded with a flush bead.
  • beadhouse — an almshouse in which inhabitants were expected to pray for the soul of the founder
  • behaviour — People's or animals' behaviour is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behaviour.
  • bhagalpur — a city in India, in Bihar: agriculture, textiles, university (1960). Pop: 340 349 (2001)
  • bhaktapur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
  • bhaunagar — a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India.
  • bhutanese — a native or inhabitant of Bhutan
  • blunthead — a frequent recreational user of marijuana
  • boarhound — a hound used to chase boar
  • boathouse — A boathouse is a building at the edge of a lake, in which boats are kept.
  • bradlaugh — Charles. 1833–91, British radical and freethinker: barred from taking his seat in parliament (1880–86) for refusing to take the parliamentary oath
  • breathful — full of breath; living
  • brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
  • brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
  • brushmark — the indented lines sometimes left by the bristles of a brush on a painted surface
  • bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
  • buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
  • bullwhack — to flog with a short whip
  • bush baby — any of a family (Galagidae) of nocturnal prosimian primates of tropical African forests, with a long, bushy tail and large eyes
  • bush bean — any of various low, erect, bushy forms of the common garden bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
  • bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
  • bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
  • bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
  • bush-bash — to clear scrubland
  • bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
  • bushelman — a person who alters or repairs garments; busheler.
  • bushwhack — to ambush
  • bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
  • cantharus — a large two-handled pottery cup
  • capuchins — Plural form of capuchin.
  • cardpunch — a device, no longer widely used, controlled by a computer, for transferring information from the central processing unit onto punched cards
  • cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
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