9-letter words containing b, s, c, h
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- 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
- chaseable — to pursue in order to seize, overtake, etc.: The police officer chased the thief.
- chasubles — Plural form of chasuble.
- chemisorb — to take up (a substance) by chemisorption
- choirboys — Plural form of choirboy.
- choosable — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- chubbiest — Superlative form of chubby.
- clubhands — Plural form of clubhand.
- clubhouse — A clubhouse is a place where the members of a club, especially a sports club, meet.
- cohesible — capable of cohesion
- cohobates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohobate.
- coolibahs — Plural form of coolibah.
- cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
- crush bar — a bar at a theatre for serving drinks during the intervals of a play
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cybercash — Funds used in electronic financial transactions, especially over the Internet.
- cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
- dabchicks — Plural form of dabchick.
- debauches — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
- escabeche — A Spanish dish consisting of fried fish that is marinated and served cold.
- fishyback — a cargo supply chain involving container transfer from lorry to ship
- flashback — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- halfbacks — Plural form of halfback.
- hardbacks — Plural form of hardback.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- hexabasic — containing six hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced or ionized: a hexabasic acid.
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- hubristic — excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hybristic — hubris.
- isobathic — having the same depth.
- machabees — Maccabees (def 2).
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- push back — force to retreat
- rheobasic — of or relating to rheobase
- schomburg — Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.
- schonbein — Christian Friedrich [kris-tee-ahn free-drikh] /ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1799–1868, Swiss chemist.
- schonberg — Arnold [ahr-nuh ld;; German ahr-nuh lt] /ˈɑr nəld;; German ˈɑr nəlt/ (Show IPA), 1874–1951, Austrian composer in the U.S.
- schoolbag — a bag used for carrying books, school supplies, etc.
- schoolboy — a boy attending school.
- schulberg — Budd [buhd] /bʌd/ (Show IPA), 1914–2009, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and scenarist.
- shambolic — very disorganized; messy or confused: I’ve had a shambolic year, the worst ever.