9-letter words containing b, i, s, h
- furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- furbisher — One who furbishes; especially, a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.
- furbishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of furbish.
- gibberish — meaningless or unintelligible talk or writing.
- globefish — puffer (def 2).
- hairballs — Plural form of hairball.
- hairbands — Plural form of hairband.
- hairbrush — a brush for smoothing and styling the hair.
- handbasin — Washbasin.
- handbills — Plural form of handbill.
- hawkbills — Plural form of hawkbill.
- hawksbill — A small tropical sea turtle with hooked jaws and overlapping horny plates on the shell, extensively hunted as the traditional source of tortoiseshell.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- herbalism — The study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, now especially as a form of alternative medicine.
- herbalist — a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
- herborist — herbalist.
- hexabasic — containing six hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced or ionized: a hexabasic acid.
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
- highballs — Plural form of highball.
- highbrows — Plural form of highbrow.
- hillsboro — a town in NW Oregon.
- hindlimbs — Plural form of hindlimb alternative spelling of hind limbs.
- hip boots — waders: thigh-high rubber boots
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- hobbitses — (humorous, nonstandard) Plural form of hobbit.
- hobbyists — Plural form of hobbyist.
- hornbills — Plural form of hornbill.
- hubristic — excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
- hybridise — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
- hybridism — Also, hybridity [hahy-brid-i-tee] /haɪˈbrɪd ɪ ti/ (Show IPA). the quality or condition of being hybrid.
- hybridist — someone who hybridizes or cross-breeds (animals or plants)
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- hybristic — hubris.
- hypobasis — the lowermost distinctively treated part of a base.
- ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.
- ibn-rushd — Averroës
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- isobathic — having the same depth.
- jibberish — Alternative spelling of gibberish.
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- kuibyshev — a port in the Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga.
- memsahibs — Plural form of memsahib.
- mint bush — an aromatic shrub of the genus Prostanthera with a mintlike odour: family Lamiaceae (labiates): native to Australia
- misbehave — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- mobbishly — in a mobbish, chaotic or turbulent manner
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- nebbishes — Plural form of nebbish.
- neighbors — Plural form of neighbor.
- phlebitis — inflammation of a vein, often occurring in the legs and involving the formation of a thrombus, characterized by swelling, pain, and change of skin color.
- published — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.