11-letter words containing h, u, b
- double-hung — (of a window) having two vertically sliding sashes, each closing a different part of the opening.
- doublecheck — Alternative form of double-check.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- dumb sheave — a block having no sheave or other part rolling with the movement of a line.
- embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
- exhaustible — Capable of being exhausted.
- farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
- fine bouche — a refined taste; educated palate.
- four-h club — an organization sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, established chiefly to instruct young people, originally in rural areas, in modern farming methods and other useful skills, as carpentry and home economics.
- george bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
- ghostbuster — A person who claims to be able to banish ghosts and poltergeists.
- green thumb — an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.
- habituating — Present participle of habituate.
- habituation — the act of habituating.
- hairbrushes — Plural form of hairbrush.
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-bushel — a unit of dry measure equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters).
- harbourless — Without a harbour.
- harbourside — An area (especially a residential area) near a harbour (often in the form of converted warehouses etc).
- hard labour — Hard labour is hard physical work which people have to do as punishment for a crime.
- hard rubber — rubber vulcanized with a large amount of sulfur, usually 25–35 percent, to render it stiff and comparatively inflexible.
- harquebuses — Plural form of harquebus.
- hash bucket — hash coding
- hattiesburg — a city in SE Mississippi.
- haunch bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- haunch-bone — the ilium or hipbone.
- headborough — the official in charge of a tithing
- headbutting — Present participle of headbutt.
- health club — a usually private club that offers its members facilities for exercising and physical conditioning.
- hedge about — If you say that something such as an offer is hedged about or is hedged around with rules or conditions, you mean that there are a lot of rules or conditions.
- herbivorous — feeding on plants.
- hibernacula — Plural form of hibernaculum.
- hold button — a button on a telephone that enables someone to interrupt an incoming call temporarily in order to answer another call.
- holus-bolus — all at once; altogether.
- home-buying — the purchase of a house or flat
- homebuilder — a person whose occupation is homebuilding.
- honor bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- honor-bound — bound by or placed under the obligation of honor: She felt honor-bound to defend her friend.
- host number — (networking) The host part of an Internet address. The rest is the network number.
- hot-tubbing — a wooden tub, usually large enough to accommodate several persons, that is filled with hot aerated water and often equipped with a thermostat and whirlpool: used for recreation or physical therapy and often placed out of doors, as on a porch.
- 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.
- hubba hubba — expressing sexual attraction
- hubba-hubba — an expression of excitement or approval
- 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.
- hullaballoo — Alternative spelling of hullabaloo.
- hullabaloos — Plural form of hullabaloo.