11-letter words containing h, s, u
- beauty bush — a hardy shrub (Kolkwitzia amabilis) of the honeysuckle family, having tubular pink flowers with white bristly hairs on the ovary
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- beauty-bush — a Chinese shrub, Kolkwitzia amabilis, of the honeysuckle family, having showy, pinkish flowers and grown as an ornamental.
- bergschrund — a crevasse at the head of a glacier
- bhubaneswar — an ancient city in E India, the capital of Odisha (formerly Orissa) state: many temples built between the 7th and 16th centuries. Pop: 647 302 (2001)
- bicephalous — having two heads
- bitterbrush — a flowering plant of the genus Purshia, native to North America
- black house — a type of thatched house, usually made of turf, formerly found in the highlands and islands of Scotland
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- bleak house — a novel (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- bleu cheese — blue cheese
- block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
- blue cheese — cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue
- blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- blue shield — Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
- blushlessly — in a manner without blushing, shamelessly
- bonus share — a share from stock given by a company to existing shareholders
- bottlebrush — a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft, used for cleaning bottles
- brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- british gum — dextrin.
- brittlebush — any of several composite plants of the genus Encelia, of desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having alternate leaves and yellow ray flowers with a yellow or purple center.
- broad-brush — A broad-brush approach, strategy, or solution deals with a problem in a general way rather than concentrating on details.
- brush aside — If you brush aside or brush away an idea, remark, or feeling, you refuse to consider it because you think it is not important or useful, even though it may be.
- brush broom — Northeastern U.S. a whisk broom.
- brush maker — a manufacturer or crafter of brushes
- brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
- brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
- bullshitter — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
- bumbershoot — an umbrella
- bunch grass — any of various grasses that grow in tufts
- burnishment — the act or process of burnishing
- burns night — (in Scotland) 25 January, the traditional date for holding a celebratory meal (Burns supper) in honour of Robert Burns
- burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
- bus shelter — A bus shelter is a bus stop that has a roof and at least one open side.
- bush ballad — an old Australian bush poem in a ballad metre dealing with aspects of life and characters in the bush
- bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
- bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bush league — In baseball, a bush league is the same as a minor league.
- bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- bush shrike — any shrike of the African subfamily Malaconotinae, such as Chlorophoneus nigrifrons (black-fronted bush shrike)
- bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
- bush-league — inferior or amateurish; mediocre: a bush-league theatrical performance.
- bushbashing — the process of forcing a path through the bush