7-letter words containing b, h
- husband — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- hushaby — Used to calm a child.
- 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.
- jewbush — The low-growing tropical American shrub Euphorbia tithymaloides (formerly Pedilanthus tithymaloides).
- job-hop — to change jobs frequently.
- kasbahs — Plural form of kasbah.
- ketubah — the formal contract in a Jewish religious marriage that includes specific financial protection for the wife in the event that the husband dies or divorces her.
- khutbah — a sermon preached by an imam in a mosque at the time of the Friday noon prayer.
- kokobeh — (of certain fruit) having a rough skin
- kurbash — a whip with leather thongs, formerly used in Turkey, Egypt, etc.
- labiche — Eugène Marin [œ-zhen ma-ran] /œˈʒɛn maˈrɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1815–88, French dramatist.
- laibach — German name of Ljubljana.
- lambeth — a borough of Greater London, England.
- lizbeth — a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- lowbush — Being, or coming from, a bush of low stature (used in names of certain fruits, such as lowbush blueberry and lowbush cranberry).
- lubfish — a stockfish
- macbeth — died 1057, king of Scotland 1040–57.
- maghreb — the Arabic name for the NW part of Africa, generally including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and sometimes Libya.
- mahaleb — a cherry, Prunus mahaleb, introduced into the U.S. from Eurasia, used as a stock in grafting cherries.
- mathlab — Symbolic math system, MITRE, 1964. Later version: MATHLAB 68 (PDP-6, 1967).
- maybush — a flowering shrub, Crataegus monogyna, that is native to Europe, northwestern Africa and western Asia, and that produces small white flowers
- mihrabs — Plural form of mihrab.
- mobbish — Like a mob, characteristic of a mob.
- mudbath — Alternative spelling of mud bath.
- murghob — a river in NE Afghanistan and SE Turkmenistan, flowing from the Hindu Kush W and NW to the Kara Kum Desert. 530 miles (853 km) long.
- nashgab — chatter; insolent talk
- nebbish — a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
- nekhbet — the guardian goddess of Upper Egypt, often represented as a vulture.
- niebuhr — Barthold Georg [bahr-tawlt gey-awrk] /ˈbɑr tɔlt geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), 1776–1831, German historian.
- obadiah — a Minor Prophet.
- obrecht — Jacob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1430–1505, Dutch composer and conductor.
- oshogbo — a city in SW Nigeria.
- phablet — a mobile device that combines the features of a smartphone and a tablet computer and is larger than a typical smartphone but not as large as a typical small tablet.
- phlebo- — indicating a vein
- phobist — a person who suffers from an unusual fear or dread of something
- phoebus — Classical Mythology. Apollo as the sun god.
- phorbol — the parent alcohol, C 2 0 H 2 8 O 6 , of certain carcinogenic compounds in croton oil.
- 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.
- potherb — any herb prepared as food by cooking in a pot, as spinach, or added as seasoning in cookery, as thyme.
- publish — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- purbach — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 75 miles (120 km) in diameter.
- qabalah — Alternative spelling of Kabballah.
- rebekah — the sister of Laban, wife of Isaac, and mother of Esau and Jacob. Gen. 24–27.
- rebirth — a new or second birth: the rebirth of the soul.