9-letter words containing b, h, i
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- breeching — the strap of a harness that passes behind a horse's haunches
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- brightest — radiating or reflecting light; luminous; shining: The bright coins shone in the gloom.
- brightish — fairly bright
- britisher — In American English or old-fashioned British English, British people are sometimes informally referred to as Britishers.
- britishes — of or relating to Great Britain or its inhabitants.
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- brunching — a meal that serves as both breakfast and lunch.
- brushfire — a fire in bushes and scrub
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- buckishly — in a buckish manner
- bug light — a yellow light bulb, used mainly outdoors, that does not attract insects.
- bullfight — A bullfight is a public entertainment in which people fight and kill bulls. Bullfights take place in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
- bullfinch — A bullfinch is a type of small European bird. The male has a black head and a pinkish-red breast.
- bullishly — in a bullish manner
- bullshits — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
- burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
- bush-line — the contour at which the growth of the bush ceases
- bushiness — a bushy quality or state
- buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
- buthelezi — Mangosouthu Gatsha (ˌmæŋɡəʊˈsuːtuː ˈɡætʃə), known as Chief Buthelezi. born 1928, Zulu leader, chief minister of the KwaZulu territory of South Africa from 1970 until its abolition in 1994; founder of the Inkatha movement and advocate of Zulu autonomy; minister of home affairs (1994–2004)
- by a hair — by a very slight margin, only just
- by choice — willingly, of one's free will
- by inches — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- by rights — If something is not the case but you think that it should be, you can say that by rights it should be the case.
- by weight — as determined by weighing
- chabasite — Alternative form of chabazite.
- chabazite — a pink, white, or colourless zeolite mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate of calcium, sodium, potassium, and aluminium in hexagonal crystalline form. Formula: Ca2Al2Si4O12.6H2O
- chainbelt — a belt made up of metal links, used as a conveyor or with a chain gear.
- chair bed — a chair that can be opened out to form a bed.
- chairback — the part of a chair that supports the sitter's back
- chalybite — siderite (def 1).
- charbroil — to grill (meat) over charcoal
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- check bit — a binary digit used as part of a unit of information that is intended to indicate whether or not an error has occurred in the transmission or storage of the information.
- chemisorb — to take up (a substance) by chemisorption
- cherubini — (Maria) Luigi (Carlo Zenobio Salvatore) (luˈiːdʒi). 1760–1842, Italian composer, noted particularly for his church music and his operas.
- chilblain — Chilblains are painful red swellings which people sometimes get on their fingers or toes in cold weather.
- chin ball — a device fastened under the chin of a bull to mark cows it has mounted
- chin-bone — the anterior portion of the mandible, forming the prominence of the chin.
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chippable — having the ability to be reduced to small pieces
- choir-boy — a boy who sings in a choir, especially a church choir.
- choirboys — Plural form of choirboy.
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- chubbiest — Superlative form of chubby.
- cohabited — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- cohabitee — A person who cohabits with another.