9-letter words containing b, h, a
- huckaback — toweling of linen or cotton, of a distinctive absorbent weave.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hunchback — a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
- husbanded — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hybernate — Obsolete spelling of hibernate.
- 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.
- hyderabad — a state in SE India, formed from portions of Chennai and Hyderabad states 1956. 105,963 sq. mi. (274,444 sq. km). Capital: Hyderabad.
- 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.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- 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.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- imambarah — a building, rooms, etc., used by Shiʿites for ceremonies, especially during the first 10 days of Muharram.
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- inbreathe — to breathe in; inhale.
- inhabited — having inhabitants; occupied; lived in or on: an inhabited island.
- inhabiter — inhabitant.
- inhabitor — One who inhabits.
- inhalable — That can be inhaled.
- inhambane — a seaport in SE Mozambique.
- isobathic — having the same depth.
- 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.
- johnboats — Plural form of johnboat.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- khanbalik — an ancient city in Mongol China, the capital of Kublai Khan: present-day site of Beijing.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- kobenhavn — Danish name of Copenhagen.
- københavn — a seaport in and the capital of Denmark, on the E coast of Zealand.
- la boheme — an opera (1896) by Giacomo Puccini.
- laberinth — (obsolete) labyrinth.
- laberynth — Obsolete spelling of labyrinth.
- labryinth — Misspelling of labyrinth.
- labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
- lamb chop — cutlets of young sheep's meat
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- laughable — such as to cause laughter; funny; amusing; ludicrous.
- laughably — In a manner that can be laughed at, humorous, in a laughable manner.
- leachable — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- lightboat — a small lightship.
- lok sabha — the lower house of parliament in India.
- machabees — Maccabees (def 2).
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- matchable — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- matchbook — a small cardboard folder into which several rows of paper matches are stapled or glued.