9-letter words containing a, b, i
- 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.
- heathbird — the black grouse
- hebridean — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- hephzibah — the wife of Hezekiah and the mother of Manasseh. II Kings 21:1.
- herbalism — The study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, now especially as a form of alternative medicine.
- herbalist — a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
- herbarium — a collection of dried plants systematically arranged.
- herbivora — grass-eating animals collectively
- heritable — capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
- heritably — In a heritable manner.
- hexabasic — containing six hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced or ionized: a hexabasic acid.
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
- hibernate — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- hibernian — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ireland or its inhabitants; Irish.
- high beam — an automobile headlight beam providing bright, long-range illumination of a darkened road and chiefly for use in driving in nonurban areas.
- high-carb — having a high carbohydrate content
- highballs — Plural form of highball.
- hindbrain — the most posterior of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue, including the cerebellum, pons, and medulla oblongata; rhombencephalon.
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- hobohemia — A community of hoboes.
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.
- hypobaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity lower than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hyperbaric (def 1).
- hypobasis — the lowermost distinctively treated part of a base.
- ibm 370xa — (computer, IBM) An IBM mainframe computer introduced in 1983. Successor to the System/370, this machine had an enhanced address space.
- ibm pc at — (computer) ("Advanced Technology") A version of the IBM PC, released in Aug 1984 with an Intel 80286 processor, a 16-bit bus, a medium-speed hard disk and a 1.2 megabyte floppy disk drive. It had a larger case than the PC, which allowed it to accept "tall cards". The AT keyboard corrected the PC's non-standard placement of the return and left shift keys but shortened the backspace key, making it harder to reach.
- ibn arabi — ("Animator of the Religion") 1165–1240, Islamic philosopher, theologian, and mystic.
- iceboater — a person who races iceboats, especially as a hobby or in competition.
- idioblast — a cell that differs greatly from the surrounding cells or tissue.
- ignitable — to set on fire; kindle.
- ignorable — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- illiberal — narrowminded; bigoted.
- imageable — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- imambarah — a building, rooms, etc., used by Shiʿites for ceremonies, especially during the first 10 days of Muharram.
- imbalance — the state or condition of lacking balance, as in proportion or distribution.
- imbracery — embracery.
- imbrangle — embrangle.
- imbricate — overlapping in sequence, as tiles or shingles on a roof.