18-letter words containing h, u, b
- the queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
- the weather bureau — the national agency responsible for collecting data about the weather and issuing forecasts
- the-master-builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- thermonuclear bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- to be caught short — If you are caught short or are taken short, you feel a sudden strong need to urinate, especially when you cannot easily find a toilet.
- to bite the bullet — If someone bites the bullet, they accept that they have to do something unpleasant but necessary.
- to gussy sb/sth up — to give (a person or thing) a smarter or more interesting appearance
- to kick the bucket — If you say that someone has kicked the bucket, you mean that they have died.
- under one's breath — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
- under the jackboot — If a country or group of people is under the jackboot, they are suffering because the government is cruel and undemocratic.
- up to the eyeballs — You use up to the eyeballs to emphasize that someone is in an undesirable state to a very great degree.
- urban homesteading — homesteading (def 2).
- westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
- white man's burden — the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.
- widemouth blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- without obligation — In advertisements, if a product or a service is available without obligation, you do not have to pay for that product or service until you have tried it and are satisfied with it.