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10-letter words containing h, u, b, a

  • bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
  • bullethead — a head considered similar in shape to a bullet, as that of a person with a high, domelike forehead and cranium and short hair.
  • bullheaded — blindly stubborn; headstrong
  • bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
  • burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
  • bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
  • burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
  • bush basil — See under basil.
  • bush grass — a coarse reedlike grass, Calamagrostis epigejos, 1–11⁄2 metres (3–41⁄2 ft) high that grows on damp clay soils in Europe and temperate parts of Asia
  • bushbeater — a person who conducts a thorough search to recruit talented people, as for an athletic team.
  • bushhammer — a hammer with small pyramids projecting from its working face, used for dressing stone
  • bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
  • bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush
  • bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
  • butt heads — an extremely stupid or inept person.
  • butt shaft — a blunt-headed unbarbed arrow
  • cash bonus — an extra amount of money given to someone for doing something good, over and above the amount that is normally paid for that achievement
  • chairbound — unable to walk; dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
  • cherubical — Cherubic.
  • china blue — a bright greenish blue.
  • choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
  • choriambus — choriamb.
  • chupacabra — An animal said to exist in parts of Latin America, where it supposedly attacks animals, especially goats.
  • club chair — a large, heavily upholstered armchair, usually with a low back
  • club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
  • clutch bag — clutch1 (def 15).
  • crunchable — That can be crunched.
  • cuban heel — a moderately high heel for a shoe or boot
  • daisy bush — any of various shrubs of the genus Olearia, of Australia and New Zealand, with daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • debauchees — Plural form of debauchee.
  • debauchery — You use debauchery to refer to the drinking of alcohol or to sexual activity if you disapprove of it or regard it as excessive.
  • debauching — Present participle of debauch.
  • douche bag — a small syringe having detachable nozzles for fluid injections, used chiefly for vaginal lavage and for enemas.
  • douchebags — Plural form of douchebag.
  • drug habit — addiction to recreational drugs
  • dust-bathe — (of a bird) to squat in dusty soil and fluff dust through the plumage: probably performed to combat ectoparasites.
  • dutch barn — a farm building consisting of a steel frame and a curved roof
  • earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
  • ebbinghaus — Hermann (ˈhɛrman). 1850–1909, German experimental psychologist who undertook the first systematic and large-scale studies of memory and devised tests using nonsense syllables
  • ethambutol — a compound used in the treatment of tuberculosis
  • euphorbias — Plural form of euphorbia.
  • europhobia — dislike for or hostility to Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
  • eurybathic — (of an aquatic organism) able to live at different depths
  • ex-husband — man: former spouse
  • farborough — an under constable of a township
  • flash burn — a burn produced by brief exposure to intense, radiant heat, as from an explosion.
  • flash tube — a gaseous discharge tube designed to emit extremely short bursts of very intense light
  • flashbulbs — Plural form of flashbulb.
  • flushboard — Alternative form of flashboard.
  • habitaunce — a place where a person or an animal lives or resides
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