8-letter words containing h, u, b
- newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- northumb — Northumberland
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- outbitch — to bitch more than or better than
- outblush — to blush more than or to exceed in rosy colour
- outthrob — to outdo in throbbing
- pabouche — a soft shoe
- phubbing — to ignore (a person or one's surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me? I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
- pinchbug — a stag beetle
- punchbag — A punchbag is a heavy leather bag, filled with a firm material, that hangs on a rope. Punchbags are used by boxers and other sportsmen for exercise and training.
- pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
- pushball — a game played with a large, heavy ball, usually about 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter, which two sides attempt to push to opposite goals.
- quasheba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- rebought — to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
- rhubarby — similar to or tasting like rhubarb
- rosebush — a shrub that bears roses.
- roxburgh — a historic county in SE Scotland.
- rubbishy — full of rubbish: a rubbishy cellar.
- rush job — something created quickly, urgently, or without due care
- saltbush — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Atriplex, having mostly alternate leaves and clusters of inconspicuous flowers, often growing in saline or alkaline soil.
- sap bush — sugarbush (def 2).
- schubert — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1797–1828, Austrian composer.
- shabuoth — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- shadbush — the serviceberry, Amelanchier canadensis.
- sloebush — a bush on which sloes grow
- snowbush — any of several ornamental shrubs having a profusion of white flowers, as Ceanothus cordulatus, of the buckthorn family, native to western North America.
- snubbish — somewhat snub
- squabash — to crush or demolish (an attack, argument, opponent, etc.)
- staubach — Roger Thomas, born 1942, U.S. football player.
- subchief — a chief below the main chief
- subchord — a part of a chord
- subepoch — an epoch or time period within another epoch or time period
- subgraph — a graph linked with another graph
- subhuman — less than or not quite human.
- subhumid — containing a high amount of water or water vapor; noticeably moist: humid air; a humid climate.
- subhyoid — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
- subniche — a subdivision of a niche
- subphase — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- subright — Usually, subrights. subsidiary rights, as for a literary or dramatic property.
- subshaft — a secondary shaft in a mine
- subshell — a group of electrons in an atom belonging to the same shell and also having the same azimuthal quantum number.
- subshrub — a plant consisting of a woody, perennial base with annual, herbaceous shoots.
- subtheme — a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic: The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting.
- sun bath — deliberate exposure of the body to the direct rays of the sun or a sunlamp.
- sunbathe — to take a sunbath.
- surbahar — an Indian stringed instrument, larger than a sitar
- tabouleh — a salad of fine-ground bulgur, parsley, tomatoes, green onions, mint, olive oil, and lemon juice.
- tarbrush — a brush for applying tar.
- the blue — the sky
- the bull — the constellation Taurus, the second sign of the zodiac