10-letter words containing h, u
- buffoonish — resembling or in the manner of a buffoon
- bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
- buggy whip — horsewhip
- bull chain — a chain for dragging logs to a sawmill.
- bull shark — a requiem shark, Carcharhinus leucas, inhabiting shallow waters from North Carolina to Brazil.
- bull wheel — any large driving gear among smaller gears.
- bullethead — a head considered similar in shape to a bullet, as that of a person with a high, domelike forehead and cranium and short hair.
- bullheaded — blindly stubborn; headstrong
- bum's rush — forcible ejection, as from a gathering
- bumpkinish — like a bumpkin
- bunch pink — sweet william.
- bunchberry — a dwarf variety of dogwood native to North America, Cornus canadensis, having red berries
- bunchgrass — grass that grows in tufts
- bundeswehr — the armed forces of Germany.
- bunny chow — a dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with curry
- bunny hill — a nursery slope
- burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- bursarship — a scholarship or grant awarded esp in Scottish and New Zealand schools, universities etc
- burushaski — a language of NW Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
- bush basil — See under basil.
- bush broom — an evergreen St.-John's-wort, Hypericum prolificum, common from New York to Iowa and southward, having yellow flowers in terminal clusters.
- bush grass — a coarse reedlike grass, Calamagrostis epigejos, 1–11⁄2 metres (3–41⁄2 ft) high that grows on damp clay soils in Europe and temperate parts of Asia
- bush house — a shed or hut in the bush or a garden
- bush knife — a large heavy knife suitable for outdoor use
- bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
- bush poppy — tree poppy.
- bush shirt — bush jacket.
- bushbeater — a person who conducts a thorough search to recruit talented people, as for an athletic team.
- bushelling — alteration of clothes
- bushhammer — a hammer with small pyramids projecting from its working face, used for dressing stone
- bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- bushranger — an escaped convict or robber living in the bush
- bushwalker — a person who hikes through bushland
- bust chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
- bute house — a house in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh: official residence of the First Minister of Scotland
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- butt heads — an extremely stupid or inept person.
- butt hinge — a hinge made of two matching leaves, one recessed into a door and the other into the jamb so that they are in contact when the door is shut
- butt shaft — a blunt-headed unbarbed arrow
- butterfish — an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin
- buttonbush — a N American shrub of the genus Cephalanthus
- buttonhold — to buttonhole a person
- buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
- buttonhook — a thin tapering hooked instrument formerly used for pulling buttons through the buttonholes of gloves, shoes, etc
- call house — a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.
- callathump — a shivaree.
- callithump — a noisy band or parade
- caoutchouc — rubber; esp. India rubber, or crude, natural rubber, obtained from latex
- cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture