9-letter words containing a, b, r, s, h
- hardbacks — Plural form of hardback.
- harebells — Plural form of harebell.
- harquebus — any of several small-caliber long guns operated by a matchlock or wheel-lock mechanism, dating from about 1400.
- hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
- hashbrown — Alternative spelling of hash brown.
- 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.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- job share — If two people job share, they share the same job by working part-time, for example one person working in the mornings and the other in the afternoons.
- job-share — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- pea shrub — any of various small trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Caragana, of the legume family, native to central Asia, having showy, usually yellow flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- raise hob — to cause mischief or disturbance
- rheobasic — of or relating to rheobase
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- seborrhea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- shadberry — the fruit of a shadbush.
- shark bay — a large inlet on the W coast of Western Australia, 800 km (500 miles) north of Perth; the coastline is over 1500 km (930 miles) long and has two large shallow embayments and numerous islands; noted for its large sea-grass beds, stromatolites, and colonies of dugong; a World Heritage site. Area: 2.2 million hectares. Pop: 900 (2014 est)
- sharpbill — a passerine bird, Oxyruncus cristatus, of New World tropical forests, having greenish plumage and a pointed bill, related to the tyrant flycatchers.
- shellbark — the shagbark tree.
- shewbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
- shillaber — a shill or someone who poses as a satisfied customer in order to encourage other buyers or participants
- shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
- shirtband — a band of material sewn into a shirt for stiffening, finishing, or the like, as a neckband to which the collar is sewn or buttoned.
- shopboard — a shop counter or work bench
- showbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
- shrubland — land covered by shrubs
- subahdary — the position or office of subadar
- subbranch — a subordinate branch or a branch of a branch, as of a bank, business, or the like.
- subchaser — submarine chaser.
- subhedral — (of mineral grains comprising igneous rocks) having a partial or incomplete crystal face or form.
- sugarbush — an evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, of the cashew family, native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having light yellow flowers in short, dense spikes and hairy, dark-red fruit.
- suribachi — an extinct volcano on Iwo Jima island: World War II battle 1945.
- sushi bar — restaurant serving Japanese rice dishes
- tabasheer — dried bamboo sap, used medicinally in the Far East
- waribashi — disposable chopsticks made of wood or bamboo
- washboard — a rectangular board or frame, typically with a corrugated metallic surface, on which clothes are rubbed in the process of washing.
- zebrafish — a small, slender freshwater fish, Brachydanio rerio, having luminous bluish-black and silvery-gold horizontal stripes: popular in home aquariums.