8-letter words containing b, h
- birching — the action of beating someone, esp a naughty schoolchild, with a birch
- birdbath — a small basin or trough for birds to bathe in, usually in a garden
- birdshot — small pellets designed for shooting birds
- birthday — Your birthday is the anniversary of the date on which you were born.
- birthing — Birthing means relating to or used during the process of giving birth.
- bitchery — spiteful talk
- bitchin' — wonderful or excellent
- bitching — a female dog: The bitch won first place in the sporting dogs category.
- bithynia — an ancient country on the Black Sea in NW Asia Minor
- blackish — Something that is blackish is very dark in colour.
- blanched — to force back or to one side; head off, as a deer or other quarry.
- blancher — someone who blanches
- blandish — to seek to persuade or influence by mild flattery; coax
- bleached — made lighter in colour
- bleacher — Usually, bleachers. a typically roofless section of inexpensive and unreserved seats in tiers, especially at an open-air athletic stadium.
- bleakish — quite pale
- blencher — someone employed to scare or obstruct
- blenheim — a village in SW Germany, site of a victory of Anglo-Austrian forces under the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugène of Savoy that saved Vienna from the French and Bavarians (1704) during the War of the Spanish Succession
- blighted — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
- blighter — You can refer to someone you do not like as a blighter.
- blimpish — highly conservative and nationalistic
- blithely — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- blockish — lacking vivacity or imagination; stupid
- blokeish — denoting or exhibiting the characteristics believed typical of an ordinary man
- blondish — (of hair, skin, etc.) light-colored: the child's soft blond curls.
- blotched — Something that is blotched has blotches on it.
- blowfish — puffer (sense 2)
- blowhard — If you describe someone as a blowhard, you mean that they express their opinions very forcefully, and usually in a boastful way.
- blowhole — the nostril, paired or single, of whales, situated far back on the skull
- bluchers — a strong, leather half boot.
- bluebush — any of various blue-grey herbaceous Australian shrubs of the genus Maireana
- bluefish — a predatory bluish marine percoid food and game fish, Pomatomus saltatrix, related to the horse mackerel: family Pomatomidae
- bluehead — either of two fish of the wrasse family, Thalassoma amblycephalum or Thalassoma bifasciatum
- bluntish — somewhat blunt
- blush-on — blusher (def 2).
- blushing — to redden, as from embarrassment or shame: He blushed when they called him a conquering hero.
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- boathook — a pole with a hook at one end, used aboard a vessel for fending off other vessels or obstacles or for catching a line or mooring buoy
- bobwhite — a brown North American quail, Colinus virginianus, the male of which has white markings on the head: a popular game bird
- boehm b. — Proposed the COCOMO technique for evaluating the cost of a software project.
- boehmian — of or relating to Boehmenism.
- boehmite — a grey, red, or brown mineral that consists of alumina in rhombic crystalline form and occurs in bauxite. Formula: AlO(OH)
- boethian — Anicius Manlius Severinus [uh-nish-ee-uh s man-lee-uh s sev-uh-rahy-nuh s] /əˈnɪʃ i əs ˈmæn li əs ˌsɛv əˈraɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 475?–525? Roman philosopher and statesman.
- boethius — Anicius Manlius Severinus (əˈnɪsɪəs ˈmænlɪəs ˌsɛvəˈraɪnəs). ?480–?524 ad, Roman philosopher and statesman, noted particularly for his work De Consolatione Philosophiae. He was accused of treason and executed by Theodoric
- bog hole — a land-surface depression occupied by waterlogged soil and spongy vegetative material that cannot bear the weight of large animals.
- bog rush — a blackish tufted cyperaceous plant, Schoenus nigricans, growing on boggy ground
- bohemian — Bohemian means belonging or relating to Bohemia or its people.
- bohr bug — (jargon, programming) /bohr buhg/ (From Quantum physics) A repeatable bug; one that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but well-defined set of conditions. Compare heisenbug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- bok choy — a Chinese plant, Brassica chinensis, that is related to the cabbage and has edible stalks and leaves
- bolthead — the head of a bolt