8-letter words containing b, h, i
- hip bath — small bathtub or bath chair
- hip boot — a hip-high boot, usually of rubber, worn by fishermen, firefighters, etc.
- hipbones — Plural form of hipbone.
- hireable — able to be hired; fit for hiring.
- his nibs — a mock title used of someone in authority
- hit back — retaliate
- hittable — (of a ball or pitch) capable of being hit
- hobbling — to walk lamely; limp.
- hobbyism — the practice of pursuing a hobby
- hobbyist — an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation: Her hobbies include stamp-collecting and woodcarving.
- hobnails — Plural form of hobnail.
- homebird — a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home, or who returns after a period of living away
- hornbill — any large bird of the family Bucerotidae, of the Old World tropics, characterized by a very large bill usually surmounted by a horny protuberance.
- horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horribly — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- huidobro — Vicente [bee-sen-te] /biˈsɛn tɛ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1948, Chilean poet.
- humbling — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- infobahn — information superhighway.
- inhabits — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- inhibits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inhibit.
- isobaths — Plural form of isobath.
- kiboshed — Simple past tense and past participle of kibosh.
- kinboshi — (sumo) an honour awarded to a rikishi of maegashira rank upon beating a yokozuna.
- kohlrabi — a cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea gongylodes, whose stem above ground swells into an edible, bulblike formation.
- liebchen — A person who is very dear to another (often used as a term of endearment).
- lubitsch — Ernst [urnst;; German ernst] /ɜrnst;; German ɛrnst/ (Show IPA), 1892–1947, German film director and producer, in the U.S. after 1922.
- maebashi — a city in the central part of Honshu, in central Japan.
- maghrebi — a native or inhabitant of the Maghreb.
- mail hub — mail server
- memsahib — (formerly, in India) a term of respect for a married European woman.
- misbirth — An abortion.
- morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
- nebbishy — a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- obeahism — the custom of or faith in the form of witchcraft known as obeah
- outbitch — to bitch more than or better than
- phi bete — a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
- philabeg — filibeg.
- philibeg — the kilt or pleated skirt worn by Scottish Highlanders.
- phleboid — pertaining to or resembling a vein.
- phubbing — to ignore (a person or one's surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me? I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
- pinchbug — a stag beetle
- pithball — a small ball of pith suspended on a thread inside an early type of electroscope that would indicate the presence and strength of electric charge in an object near or touching it
- prebirth — the period, usually six months, preceding a child's birth.
- prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- rabbitoh — (formerly) an itinerant seller of rabbits for eating
- rhabdoid — a rod-shaped structure found in the cells of some plants and animals
- rhomboid — an oblique-angled parallelogram with only the opposite sides equal.
- rubbishy — full of rubbish: a rubbishy cellar.