9-letter words containing h, u
- ayub khan — Mohammed. 1907–74, Pakistani field marshal; president of Pakistan (1958–69)
- ayutthaya — a city in S Thailand, on the Chao Phraya River: capital of the country until 1767; noted for its canals and ruins. Pop (province): 727 300 (2000)
- azimuthal — Astronomy, Navigation. the arc of the horizon measured clockwise from the south point, in astronomy, or from the north point, in navigation, to the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon.
- babushkas — Plural form of babushka.
- babyhouse — A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture.
- bachelour — Obsolete form of bachelor.
- backhouse — an outdoor privy; outhouse
- bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- bahaullah — Husayn ʿAlī Mīrzā.
- bahuvrihi — a class of compound words consisting of two elements the first of which is a specific feature of the second
- bakehouse — a building or room to bake in; bakery.
- bakuchiol — A meroterpene phenol, extracted from seeds of Psoralea corylifolia, that shows antimicrobial activity.
- barathrum — any deep abyss
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- bashfully — In a bashful manner.
- bathhouse — A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths and often other facilities such as a sauna.
- bathybius — a gelatinous substance discovered on the Atlantic seabed, originally thought to be protoplasm, but later discovered to be inorganic
- batu khan — d. 1255, Mongol conqueror: leader of the Golden Horde (grandson of Genghis Khan).
- bauhinias — Plural form of bauhinia.
- beach bum — If you refer to someone as a beach bum, you mean that they spend a lot of time enjoying themselves on the beach or in the sea.
- beach hut — a hut used for changing, storing deckchairs, etc
- beadflush — (of paneling) having panels flush with their stiles and rails and surrounded with a flush bead.
- beadhouse — an almshouse in which inhabitants were expected to pray for the soul of the founder
- bedehouse — beadhouse
- beechnuts — Plural form of beechnut.
- beerhouse — an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.
- behaviour — People's or animals' behaviour is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behaviour.
- behoveful — useful; of benefit
- bell push — a button that is pressed to operate an electric bell
- bethought — simple past tense and past participle of bethink.
- bhagalpur — a city in India, in Bihar: agriculture, textiles, university (1960). Pop: 340 349 (2001)
- bhaktapur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- bhaunagar — a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India.
- bhikkhuni — a fully ordained Buddhist nun
- bhikshuni — a female bhikshu; nun.
- bhutanese — a native or inhabitant of Bhutan
- bi-hourly — occurring every two hours.
- big house — a penitentiary (usually preceded by the).
- big mouth — If you say that someone is a big mouth or that they have a big mouth, you mean that they tell other people things that should have been kept secret.
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- bismuthic — of or containing bismuth in the pentavalent state
- bismuthyl — Chemistry. the univalent group BiO + , occurring in certain bismuth salts, as bismuth oxychloride, BiOCl.
- blitheful — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- blue chip — Blue chip stocks and shares are an investment which are considered fairly safe to invest in while also being profitable.
- blue john — a blue or purple fibrous variety of fluorspar occurring only in Derbyshire: used for vases, etc
- blue-chip — of, relating to, or constituting a blue chip.
- bluemouth — a deep water fish, Helicolenus dactylopterus
- blueshift — a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system