7-letter words containing b, h, i
- hoboism — The lifestyle or practices of hobos; vagrancy.
- holbein — Hans [hahns] /hɑns/ (Show IPA), ("the elder") 1465?–1524, German painter.
- holibut — halibut.
- hopbind — the stalk or vine on which hops grow
- howbeit — Archaic. nevertheless.
- hubbies — husband.
- hubbing — the central part of a wheel, as that part into which the spokes are inserted.
- humbird — (obsolete) A hummingbird.
- hybrids — Plural form of hybrid.
- icebath — Alternative spelling of ice bath.
- ichabod — a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “without honor.”.
- inhabit — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- inhibin — (biochemistry) A peptide hormone, secreted by the gonads, which inhibits the secretion of follicle-stimulating hormone and is thus under consideration as a male contraceptive.
- inhibit — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
- isobath — an imaginary line or one drawn on a map connecting all points of equal depth below the surface of a body of water.
- labiche — Eugène Marin [œ-zhen ma-ran] /œˈʒɛn maˈrɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1815–88, French dramatist.
- laibach — German name of Ljubljana.
- lizbeth — a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- lubfish — a stockfish
- mihrabs — Plural form of mihrab.
- mobbish — Like a mob, characteristic of a mob.
- nebbish — a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
- niebuhr — Barthold Georg [bahr-tawlt gey-awrk] /ˈbɑr tɔlt geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), 1776–1831, German historian.
- obadiah — a Minor Prophet.
- phobist — a person who suffers from an unusual fear or dread of something
- pibroch — (in the Scottish Highlands) a piece of music for the bagpipe, consisting of a series of variations on a basic theme, usually martial in character, but sometimes used as a dirge.
- publish — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- rebirth — a new or second birth: the rebirth of the soul.
- rhombic — having the form of a rhombus.
- rubbish — worthless, unwanted material that is rejected or thrown out; debris; litter; trash.
- shebeli — Webi [wey-bi] /ˈweɪ bɪ/ (Show IPA), Webi Shebeli.
- shibeli — river in E Africa, flowing from SE Ethiopia through Somalia into a swamp near the Juba River: c. 1,200 mi (1,931 km)
- shikibu — Murasaki Shikibu.
- shipboy — ship's boy.
- showbiz — show business: entertainment
- sibship — the condition of being a member of a sib.
- tabitha — a feminine name
- thebaic — an ancient city in Upper Egypt, on the Nile, whose ruins are located in the modern towns of Karnak and Luxor: a former capital of Egypt.
- thebaid — the ancient region surrounding Thebes, in Egypt.
- thimble — a small cap, usually of metal, worn over the fingertip to protect it when pushing a needle through cloth in sewing.
- thrombi — a fibrinous clot that forms in and obstructs a blood vessel, or that forms in one of the chambers of the heart.
- tubbish — rather fat or shaped like a tub
- ushabti — shawabti.
- wahhabi — a follower of ʿAbd al-Wahhab (1703–1792), who stringently opposed all practices not sanctioned by the Koran. The Wahhabis, founded in the 18th century, are the most conservative Muslim group and are today found mainly in Saudi Arabia.
- weblish — the shorthand form of English that is used in text messaging, chat rooms, etc
- wisbech — a town in E England, in N Cambridgeshire: market-gardening. Pop: 26 536 (2001)
- yobbish — Characteristic of a yob, lout or hooligan.
- yohimbe — a tropical African tree, Corynanthe johimbe, whose bark is a source of the alkaloid yohimbine.
- zabtieh — a Turkish police officer