9-letter words containing b, h, a
- thumbnail — the nail of the thumb.
- thumbtack — a tack with a large, flat head, designed to be thrust into a board or other fairly soft object or surface by the pressure of the thumb.
- to be had — If you have been had, someone has tricked you, for example by selling you something at too high a price.
- torchable — able to be torched or set alight
- touchable — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- touchback — a play in which the ball is downed after having been kicked into the end zone by the opposing team or having been recovered or intercepted there, or in which it has been kicked beyond the end zone. Compare safety (def 6a).
- tub chair — an easy chair having a semicircular back and, with the wings or arms, forming a single upholstered piece.
- unabashed — not ashamed, disconcerted, or apologetic; boldly certain of one's position.
- unbashful — uncomfortably diffident and easily embarrassed; shy; timid.
- unharbour — to force out of shelter, esp with regard to hunted animals
- unhirable — able to be hired; fit for hiring.
- vibraharp — a musical percussion instrument that resembles a marimba and is played with mallets, but that has metal instead of wooden bars and has a set of electrically powered resonators for sustaining the tone or creating a vibrato.
- wahhabism — the group of doctrines or practices of the Wahhabis.
- walbrzych — a city in SW Poland, in Silesia.
- waribashi — disposable chopsticks made of wood or bamboo
- washables — Plural form of washable.
- washbasin — a large bowl or basin used for washing one's hands and face, small articles of clothing, etc.
- washboard — a rectangular board or frame, typically with a corrugated metallic surface, on which clothes are rubbed in the process of washing.
- washbowls — Plural form of washbowl.
- watchable — detectable; apparent.
- watchband — a leather, metal, fabric, or plastic bracelet or strap attached to a wrist watch to hold it on the wrist.
- wałbrzych — an industrial city in SW Poland. Pop: 176 000 (2005 est)
- weighable — Heavy enough to be weighed.
- whaleback — Nautical. a cargo vessel having a hull with a convex deck. a deck or cover curving upward.
- whaleboat — a long, narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas: formerly used in whaling, now mainly for sea rescue.
- whalebone — an elastic, horny substance growing in place of teeth in the upper jaw of certain whales, and forming a series of thin, parallel plates on each side of the palate; baleen.
- wheatbird — A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.
- wheelbase — the distance from the center of the front-wheel spindle to the center of the rear-wheel axle.
- whitbread — Fatima. born 1961, British javelin thrower: won gold at the World Championships (1987)
- whitebait — a young sprat or herring.
- whitebark — The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
- whitebass — a freshwater fish, Morone chrysops, of the bass family Moronidae, native to North American lakes and rivers
- whitebeam — a European tree, Sorbus aria, of the rose family, having leathery leaves, showy, white flowers, and mealy, orange-red or scarlet fruit.
- whiz-bang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- whizzbang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- wilbraham — a city in SW Massachusetts.
- zebrafish — a small, slender freshwater fish, Brachydanio rerio, having luminous bluish-black and silvery-gold horizontal stripes: popular in home aquariums.
- zoophobia — abnormal fear of animals.