9-letter words containing a, b, s, h, e
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- husbanded — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- 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.
- machabees — Maccabees (def 2).
- memsahibs — Plural form of memsahib.
- misbehave — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- 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
- sablefish — a large, blackish food fish, Anoplopoma fimbria, inhabiting waters of the North Pacific.
- 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.
- shabbiest — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- shadberry — the fruit of a shadbush.
- shaggable — sexually attractive
- shankbone — a large bone in the lower leg between the knee and the foot of an animal; the tibia
- sheboygan — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- sheddable — to pour forth (water or other liquid), as a fountain.
- shellback — an old sailor.
- 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.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shillaber — a shill or someone who poses as a satisfied customer in order to encourage other buyers or participants
- shippable — being in a suitable form or condition for shipping1 .
- shoeblack — bootblack.
- shootable — suitable for being shot
- 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.
- spinebash — to rest; loaf.
- stenobath — a stenobathic organism.
- sub-phase — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- subchaser — submarine chaser.
- subhalide — a halide containing a relatively small proportion of the halogen, as mercurous chloride.
- subhedral — (of mineral grains comprising igneous rocks) having a partial or incomplete crystal face or form.
- sublethal — almost lethal or fatal: a sublethal dose of poison.
- subschema — a part of a computer database which is used by an individual
- tabasheer — dried bamboo sap, used medicinally in the Far East
- the backs — the grounds between the River Cam and certain Cambridge colleges
- the blahs — a state of weariness, boredom, or general lack of interest in life
- unabashed — not ashamed, disconcerted, or apologetic; boldly certain of one's position.
- washables — Plural form of washable.
- wheelbase — the distance from the center of the front-wheel spindle to the center of the rear-wheel axle.
- whitebass — a freshwater fish, Morone chrysops, of the bass family Moronidae, native to North American lakes and rivers
- zebrafish — a small, slender freshwater fish, Brachydanio rerio, having luminous bluish-black and silvery-gold horizontal stripes: popular in home aquariums.