9-letter words containing a, b, i, h
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- chilblain — Chilblains are painful red swellings which people sometimes get on their fingers or toes in cold weather.
- chin ball — a device fastened under the chin of a bull to mark cows it has mounted
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chippable — having the ability to be reduced to small pieces
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohabitee — A person who cohabits with another.
- cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- coinhabit — To inhabit together.
- coolibahs — Plural form of coolibah.
- dabchicks — Plural form of dabchick.
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- ecophobia — Fear of one\u2019s home.
- eightball — (in pool) the black ball, marked with the number eight
- elisabeth — a feminine name
- elizabeth — a city in NE New Jersey, on Newark Bay. Pop: 123 215 (2003 est)
- establish — Set up (an organization, system, or set of rules) on a firm or permanent basis.
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- faidherbe — Louis Léon César. 1818–89, French soldier and governor of Senegal (1854–65); founder of Dakar
- fightable — able or ready to fight
- fightback — A fightback is an effort made by a person or group of people to get back into a strong position when they seem likely to lose something such as an election or an important sports match.
- fish ball — a fried ball (or patty) of minced fish, often mixed with mashed potatoes
- fish bass — a bast fibre bag for holding an angler's catch
- fishyback — a cargo supply chain involving container transfer from lorry to ship
- funabashi — a city in E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay.
- galbraith — John Kenneth, 1908–2006, U.S. economist, born in Canada.
- ghaziabad — a city in Uttar Pradesh, N central India, near New Delhi.
- haberdine — a cod that has been dried and salted
- habilable — having the ability to be clothed
- habitable — capable of being inhabited.
- habitably — capable of being inhabited.
- habitance — (obsolete) dwelling; abode; residence.
- habitancy — the act or fact of inhabiting; inhabitancy.
- habituate — to accustom (a person, the mind, etc.), as to a particular situation: Wealth habituated him to luxury.
- hair bulb — the end of a hair follicle containing active hair-growing cells; situated under the skin
- hairballs — Plural form of hairball.
- hairbands — Plural form of hairband.
- hairbrush — a brush for smoothing and styling the hair.
- halobiont — an organism that thrives in a saline environment.
- hammurabi — 18th century b.c. or earlier, king of Babylonia.
- handbasin — Washbasin.
- handbills — Plural form of handbill.
- harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- harboring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard-bill — a seed-eating bird.
- hard-boil — to boil (an egg) until the yolk and white have become firm or solid.
- hawkbills — Plural form of hawkbill.
- hawksbill — A small tropical sea turtle with hooked jaws and overlapping horny plates on the shell, extensively hunted as the traditional source of tortoiseshell.