9-letter words containing h, o, u, b
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
- 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 hook — Dialect. a tool with a curved blade and long handle used to cut bushes and undergrowth.
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- cherbourg — a port in NW France, on the English Channel. Pop: 25 370 (1999)
- clubhouse — A clubhouse is a place where the members of a club, especially a sports club, meet.
- cubbyhole — A cubbyhole is a very small room or space for storing things.
- debouched — Simple past tense and past participle of debouche.
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- douchebag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
- doughball — a small ball of bread dough, cooked in a stew, as an accompaniment to a meal, etc
- doughboys — Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
- doukhobor — a member of an independent religious sect originating in Russia in the 18th century, believing in the supreme authority of the inner voice and in the transmigration of souls, rejecting the divinity of Christ and the establishing of churches, and expressing opposition to civil authority by refusing to pay taxes, do military service, etc.
- dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
- dumb show — a part of a dramatic representation given in pantomime, common in early English drama.
- dutch bob — a hair style consisting of bangs cut straight across the forehead and the rest of the hair cut to a uniform length just below the ears.
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- eurobeach — a beach that has been designated as suitable for bathing from because it meets the limits set by European Union regulations for bacteria in bathing areas
- fox brush — the tail of a fox.
- handbound — (of books) bound by hand.
- harborous — welcoming and offering hospitality
- harboured — 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.
- harbourer — A person who harbours another.
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- hellbound — Bound for Hell; damned.
- hereabout — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- hidebound — narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant.
- homebound — confined to one's home, especially because of illness.
- homebuilt — Constructed at home, rather than being obtained from a manufacturer etc.
- homebuyer — a person who buys or expects to buy a house.
- honey bun — Also called sticky bun. a sweet spiral-shaped bun, usually with cinnamon, raisins, and nuts, coated with honey or butter and brown sugar.
- hoofbound — (of horses and other hoofed animals) having the heels of the hoofs dry and contracted, causing lameness.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- houseboys — Plural form of houseboy.
- how about — introducing a suggestion
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- john bull — England; the English people.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- lunch box — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
- mouthable — able to be recited or spoken well
- mouthbows — Plural form of mouthbow.
- neighbour — a person who lives near another.
- oathbound — Bound by an oath.
- overbrush — To brush excessively.
- phototube — an electron tube with a photosensitive cathode, used like a photocell.
- ploughboy — a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
- punchbowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- quebracho — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Schinopsis, having very hard wood, especially S. lorentzii, the wood and bark of which are important in tanning and dyeing.
- rhizobium — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Rhizobium, found as symbiotic nitrogen fixers in nodules on the roots of the bean, clover, etc.