9-letter words containing h, a, b, o
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- hashbrown — Alternative spelling of hash brown.
- headboard — a board forming the head of anything, especially of a bed.
- hebdomads — Plural form of hebdomad.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- hemoblast — hematoblast.
- herbivora — grass-eating animals collectively
- hereabout — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- hezbollah — a radical Shiʿite Muslim organization in Lebanon engaged in guerrilla warfare against Israel.
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- hobohemia — A community of hoboes.
- hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- holy lamb — paschal lamb (def 4).
- home base — Baseball. home plate.
- honorable — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- hoofbeats — Plural form of hoofbeat.
- hoop back — a chair back having the uprights and crest rail in a continuous arched form.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- how about — introducing a suggestion
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hypobaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity lower than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hyperbaric (def 1).
- hypobasis — the lowermost distinctively treated part of a base.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- inhabitor — One who inhabits.
- isobathic — having the same depth.
- job share — If two people job share, they share the same job by working part-time, for example one person working in the mornings and the other in the afternoons.
- job-share — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- johnboats — Plural form of johnboat.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- kobenhavn — Danish name of Copenhagen.
- la boheme — an opera (1896) by Giacomo Puccini.
- lamb chop — cutlets of young sheep's meat
- lightboat — a small lightship.
- lok sabha — the lower house of parliament in India.
- matchbook — a small cardboard folder into which several rows of paper matches are stapled or glued.
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- moth bean — a low, trailing Indian plant, Vigna aconitifolia, of the legume family, having yellow flowers grown for forage and edible, mottled grayish-yellow seeds.
- mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- mouthable — able to be recited or spoken well
- nabothian — Alternative form of Nabothian.
- neophobia — Extreme or irrational fear or dislike of anything new, novel, or unfamiliar.
- north bay — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.