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

  • shea butter — a solid, greenish, yellowish, or whitish fat derived from the seeds of the shea tree, used for food and in the manufacture of soaps and candles.
  • shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shrubberied — having a shrubbery
  • shutter-bug — an amateur photographer, especially one who is greatly devoted to the hobby.
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
  • staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
  • sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
  • sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
  • sub-saharan — of, relating to, or in Africa south of the Sahara Desert: a sub-Saharan country; sub-Saharan peoples.
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • superbright — exceptionally bright
  • sweet shrub — Carolina allspice.
  • terbrugghen — Hendrik. 1588–1629, Dutch painter of the Utrecht school, who specialized in religious subjects, for example the Incredulity of St Thomas and the Calling of St Matthew
  • tharborough — a type of constable in William Shakespeare's 'Love's Labours Lost'
  • the numbers — an illegal lottery in which small bets are placed on the order of certain numbers, usually the last three, in some tabulation of game scores or financial reports published in the daily newspapers
  • thereabouts — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
  • thrasybulus — died c389 b.c, Athenian patriot and general.
  • throw about — to spend (one's money) in a reckless and flaunting manner
  • thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
  • thumbsucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
  • thunder bay — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
  • thunderbird — (in the mythology of some North American Indians) a huge, eaglelike bird capable of producing thunder, lightning, and rain.
  • thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
  • touch rugby — a limited-contact version of rugby in which players seek to evade being touched (rather than tackled) while in possession of the ball
  • triphibious — employing or involving land, naval, and air forces in a combined operation.
  • troubleshot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • truth table — a table that gives the truth-values of a compound sentence formed from component sentences by means of logical connectives, as AND, NOT, or OR, for every possible combination of truth-values of the component sentences.
  • tub-thumper — a vociferous supporter or promoter, as of a cause.
  • tudorbethan — (of a contemporary building) imitative of Tudor and Elizabethan architecture
  • turbocharge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
  • unbetrothed — engaged to be married: She is betrothed to that young lieutenant.
  • unbreathing — not breathing; holding the breath
  • unbrotherly — not brotherly
  • unburnished — to polish (a surface) by friction.
  • uncrushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
  • underbreath — a whisper
  • unreachable — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
  • unrightable — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
  • unshareable — the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group.
  • vapour bath — the act of bathing in vapour, formerly believed to have medicinal benefits
  • westborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
  • whereabouts — about where? where?
  • whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
  • yarboroughs — Plural form of yarborough.
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