10-letter words containing h, e, b, t, u
- overbought — marked by prices considered unjustifiably high because of extensive buying: The stock market is overbought now. Compare oversold.
- shock tube — an apparatus in which a gas is heated to very high temperatures by means of a shock wave, usually for spectroscopic investigation of the natures and reactions of the resulting radicals and excited molecules
- shutterbug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
- south bend — a city in N Indiana.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- tetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the southeastern U.S., having leathery leaves and white to pink flowers.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- the bounce — the start of play at the beginning of each quarter or after a goal
- the buddha — ?563–483 bc, a title applied to Gautama Siddhartha, a nobleman and religious teacher working in N India, regarded by his followers as the most recent rediscoverer of the path to enlightenment: the founder of Buddhism
- the budget — an estimate of British government expenditures and revenues and the financial plans for the ensuing fiscal year presented annually to the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
- the burren — a limestone area on the North Clare coast in the Irish Republic, famous for its wild flowers, caves, and dolmens
- the bushes — rural or small-town districts
- the buskin — tragic drama
- thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
- thimbleful — the amount that a thimble will hold.
- thumbpiece — a lever over the hinge on the lid of a tankard, pressed by the thumb to raise the lid.
- thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
- thumbwheel — a small, partially exposed wheel that can be turned with a thumb or finger and is found on various devices such as computers or instruments
- thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
- thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
- touch base — make contact
- tube sheet — A tube sheet is a plate which is used to support the tubes in a shell-and-tube heat exchanger.
- tumblehome — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
- turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- umber moth — any of various brownish geometrid moths, esp the waved umber (Menophra abruptaria) and small waved umber (Horisme vitalbata), that are cryptically marked to merge with tree bark, and the mottled umber (Erannis defoliaria) whose looper larvae can strip branches and even trees
- unberthing — a shelflike sleeping space, as on a ship, airplane, or railroad car.
- unbesought — not besought or entreated
- unblighted — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
- unbothered — not experiencing mental or physical discomfort: He was unbothered by the cold. He was unbothered about not being picked for the team.
- unbreathed — not breathed: unbreathed air.
- unhittable — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- whereabout — whereabouts.
- white buck — a casual oxford shoe made of white buckskin.