9-letter words containing u, n, b, s
- burrstone — buhrstone
- bush bean — any of various low, erect, bushy forms of the common garden bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
- bush wren — a wren, Xenicus longipes, occurring in New Zealand: family Xenicidae
- bush-line — the contour at which the growth of the bush ceases
- bushelman — a person who alters or repairs garments; busheler.
- bushiness — a bushy quality or state
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- businessy — of, relating to, typical of, or suitable for the world of commercial or industrial business
- bustiness — the state of being busty
- butchness — the state of being butch
- buttinski — a person who interferes in the affairs of others; meddler.
- buttinsky — a busybody
- carbonous — of, containing, or derived from carbon.
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- debunkers — Plural form of debunker.
- debutants — Plural form of debutant.
- deskbound — doing sedentary work; working exclusively at a desk.
- disburden — to remove a burden from; rid of a burden.
- doubloons — Plural form of doubloon.
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- drubbings — Plural form of drubbing.
- dubliners — a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce.
- dunstable — John, c1390–1453, English composer.
- eastbound — traveling, proceeding, or headed east: an eastbound train.
- encumbers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encumber.
- fibrinous — the insoluble protein end product of blood coagulation, formed from fibrinogen by the action of thrombin in the presence of calcium ions.
- flensburg — a port in N Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein: taken from Denmark by Prussia in 1864; voted to remain German in 1920. Pop: 85 300 (2003 est)
- fumblings — Plural form of fumbling.
- funabashi — a city in E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay.
- fungibles — Plural form of fungible.
- gambrinus — a mythical Flemish king, the reputed inventor of beer.
- globulins — Plural form of globulin.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- husbanded — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.
- ibn-rushd — Averroës
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- incubates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incubate.
- indubious — Not dubious or doubtful; certain.
- inebrious — (archaic) intoxicated; drunk.
- infusible — capable of being infused.
- innsbruck — an alpine region in W Austria and N Italy: a former Austrian crown land.
- insoluble — incapable of being dissolved: insoluble salts.
- insolubly — In an insoluble manner; irresolubly, irresolvably.
- insurable — capable of being or proper to be insured, as against loss or harm.