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11-letter words containing h, u, b, r

  • house brand — a brand name used by a retailer for a product or product line made specifically for or by the retailer.
  • houseboater — One who lives in a houseboat.
  • housebreaks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of housebreak.
  • housebroken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
  • huckleberry — the dark-blue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Gaylussacia of the heath family.
  • hudibrastic — of, relating to, or resembling the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (published 1663–78), a mock-heroic poem written in tetrameter couplets.
  • hummingbird — a very small nectar-sipping New World bird of the family Trochilidae, characterized by the brilliant, iridescent plumage of the male, a slender bill, and narrow wings, the extremely rapid beating of which produces a humming sound: noted for their ability to hover and to fly upward, downward, and backward in a horizontal position.
  • hurly-burly — noisy disorder and confusion; commotion; uproar; tumult.
  • hurtleberry — whortleberry.
  • lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
  • lucha libre — a form of freestyle wrestling originating in Mexico
  • lumber with — If you are lumbered with someone or something, you have to deal with them or take care of them even though you do not want to and this annoys you.
  • lunch break — pause for midday meal
  • mach number — a number indicating the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the medium through which the object is moving. Abbreviation: M.
  • marlborough — John Churchill, 1st Duke of, Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
  • marsh buggy — swamp buggy.
  • maryborough — a seaport in E Australia.
  • melon shrub — pepino (def 2).
  • nailbrushes — Plural form of nailbrush.
  • neighbourly — (British, Canada) Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.
  • north-bound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
  • northumbria — an early English kingdom extending N from the Humber to the Firth of Forth.
  • nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
  • nudibranchs — Plural form of nudibranch.
  • overburthen — to overburden
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • purchasable — capable of being bought.
  • quail-brush — a salt-tolerant, silvery gray shrub, Atriplex lentiformis breweri, of the amaranth family, native to southern California.
  • rabbitbrush — any of several composite shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having whitish, hairy branches and yellow flowers.
  • rattle-bush — blue false indigo.
  • refurbisher — a person who refurbishes
  • republisher — a person who republishes
  • rhabdovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae, including the rabies virus.
  • rhesus baby — a baby suffering from haemolytic disease at birth as its red blood cells (which are Rh positive) have been attacked in the womb by antibodies from its Rh negative mother
  • rhomboideus — either of two back muscles that function to move the scapula.
  • right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
  • ritual bath — a mikvah.
  • royal burgh — (in Scotland) a burgh that was established by a royal charter granted directly by the sovereign
  • rubbish bag — a plastic bag for the disposal of household rubbish
  • rubbish bin — trash can
  • rubbish tip — dump for refuse
  • rugby shirt — a knitted pullover sport shirt usually in bold horizontal stripes and having a white collar and neckline placket, styled after the shirts traditionally worn by the members of Rugby teams.
  • russophobia — an intense and often irrational hatred for Russia, or esp the former Soviet Union, its political system, etc
  • scarborough — a seaport in North Yorkshire, in NE England.
  • schrödinbug — (jargon, programming)   /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
  • scrub brush — a brush with stiff, short bristles for scrubbing.
  • semishrubby — somewhat resembling a shrub; shrubby in some respects; having characteristics somewhat like those of a shrub; partly covered in shrubs
  • shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
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