8-letter words containing b, a, h
- handbags — a bag or box of leather, fabric, plastic, or the like, held in the hand or carried by means of a handle or strap, commonly used by women for holding money, toilet articles, small purchases, etc.
- handball — a game, similar to squash, played by two or four persons who strike a small ball against a wall or walls with the hand.
- handbell — a small handheld bell, especially as part of a tuned set having different notes or pitches and played by a group.
- handbill — a small printed notice, advertisement, or announcement, usually for distribution by hand.
- handbook — a book of instruction or guidance, as for an occupation; manual: a handbook of radio.
- hangable — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hangbird — a bird that builds a hanging nest, especially the Baltimore oriole.
- hannibal — 247–183 b.c, Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps and invaded Italy (son of Hamilcar Barca).
- haphsiba — Hephzibah (def 1).
- hapsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harambee — a work chant used on the E African coast
- harbored — 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.
- harborer — 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.
- harbours — Plural form of harbour.
- hard bop — an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- hardback — A book with a solid binding.
- hardbake — almond toffee
- hardball — baseball, as distinguished from softball.
- hardbody — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hardboil — Alternative form of hard-boil.
- hardboot — a horse-racing enthusiast.
- harebell — a low plant, Campanula rotundifolia, of the bellflower family, having narrow leaves and blue, bell-shaped flowers.
- harmable — Susceptible to harm.
- harunobu — Suzuki [soo-zoo-kee] /sʊˈzu ki/ (Show IPA), 1720?–70, Japanese painter and printmaker.
- has-been — a person or thing that is no longer effective, successful, popular, etc.
- hatbands — Plural form of hatband.
- hatboxes — Plural form of hatbox.
- hatbrush — a soft brush for hats
- hateable — meriting hatred or loathing.
- hauberks — Plural form of hauberk.
- haulable — Capable of being hauled.
- haulback — (in lumbering) a small line for pulling a cable back to its original position after it has been used to haul a log away.
- hautbois — hautboy.
- hautboys — Plural form of hautboy.
- hawkbell — a small bell fitted to a hawk's leg
- hawkbill — hawksbill turtle.
- hawkbits — Plural form of hawkbit.
- hay bale — block of dried grass
- head boy — The head boy of a school is the boy who is the leader of the prefects and who often represents the school on public occasions.
- headband — a band worn around the head; fillet.
- headbang — To engage in headbanging, the vigorous movement of the head in time to music.
- headbutt — A sharp blow delivered by driving the head into the opponent, generally by lowering the head and charging forward or by rapidly tilting the head backward and then forward.
- healable — Receptive to treatment or cure.
- hearable — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
- heatable — Capable of being heated.
- hebdomad — the number seven.
- hebetant — causing dullness
- hebetate — to make dull or blunt.
- hebraism — an expression or construction distinctive of the Hebrew language.
- hebraist — a person versed in the Hebrew language.