8-letter words containing a, b, h
- hebraize — to use expressions or constructions distinctive of the Hebrew language.
- hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
- heelball — a substance composed of lampblack and wax used for making rubbings or for polishing shoes.
- helpable — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- henbanes — Plural form of henbane.
- hepzibah — a female given name.
- herb tea — a tea made of dried herbs and spices and usually containing no caffeine.
- herbaged — covered with grass or herbage
- herbaria — Plural form of herbarium.
- hibachis — Plural form of hibachi.
- hibernal — of or relating to winter; wintry.
- hibernia — Ireland.
- high bar — a bar fixed in a position parallel to the floor or ground, for use in chinning and other exercises.
- highball — a drink of whiskey mixed with club soda or ginger ale and served with ice in a tall glass.
- hip bath — small bathtub or bath chair
- hireable — able to be hired; fit for hiring.
- hit back — retaliate
- hittable — (of a ball or pitch) capable of being hit
- hobnails — Plural form of hobnail.
- hogbacks — Plural form of hogback.
- holdable — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- holdback — the iron or strap on the shaft of a horse-drawn vehicle to which the breeching of the harness is attached, enabling the horse to hold back or to back the vehicle.
- hoofbeat — the sound made by an animal's hoof in walking, running, etc.
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- hornbeam — any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana (American hornbeam)
- huggable — evoking a desire to hug close; inviting a close embrace; cuddly: a huggable little baby.
- hummable — (of a piece of music) able to be hummed easily; melodic; tuneful.
- humpback — a back that is humped in a convex position.
- huna bay — an inlet of the Greenland Sea on the NW coast of Iceland.
- huntable — capable of being hunted
- husbands — Plural form of husband.
- hylobate — Any of the genus Hylobates of gibbons.
- infobahn — information superhighway.
- inhabits — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- isobaths — Plural form of isobath.
- jhabvala — Ruth Prawer, original name Ruth Prawer. 1927–2013, British writer living in India and the US, born in Germany to Polish parents: author of the Booker-prizewinning novel Heat and Dust (1975) and scripts for films by James Ivory
- jobshare — an arrangement in which two or more people divide the duties and payment for one position between them, working at different times
- johnboat — a light, square-ended, flat-bottomed skiff, used in shallow water.
- kabbalah — a system of esoteric theosophy and theurgy developed by rabbis, reaching its peak about the 12th and 13th centuries, and influencing certain medieval and Renaissance Christian thinkers. It was based on a mystical method of interpreting Scripture by which initiates claimed to penetrate sacred mysteries. Among its central doctrines are, all creation is an emanation from the Deity and the soul exists from eternity.
- khambhat — Gulf of, a gulf of the Arabian Sea, on the NW coast of India.
- knobhead — a stupid person
- kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
- kombucha — Also called kombucha mushroom. a live culture of multiple species of yeast and bacteria, grown to make a mildly alcoholic fermented beverage.
- kourbash — to whip with a kurbash.
- la habra — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- lambchop — A chop or rib of lamb.
- macahuba — a South American palm tree of the genus Acrocomia
- maebashi — a city in the central part of Honshu, in central Japan.
- maghrebi — a native or inhabitant of the Maghreb.
- mail hub — mail server