8-letter words containing h, e, b, n
- bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
- bushnell — David, 1742?–1824, U.S. inventor: pioneered in submarine construction.
- but then — You use but then before a remark which suggests that what you have just said should not be regarded as surprising.
- cherubin — Obsolete form of cherub.
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- chinbone — the front part of the jawbone that constitutes the chin
- disbench — to remove (a barrister or judge) from the membership of the governing body of one of the Inns of Court
- dushanbe — a republic in central Asia, N of Afghanistan. 55,240 sq. mi. (143,600 sq. km). Capital: Dushanbe.
- fishbone — A bone from a fish.
- habanera — a dance of Cuban origin.
- habanero — an extremely pungent small pepper, the fruit of a variety of Capsicum chinense, used in cookery.
- habenula — a narrow bandlike structure, as the stalk attaching the pineal gland to the thalamus.
- handbell — a small handheld bell, especially as part of a tuned set having different notes or pitches and played by a group.
- hangable — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- has-been — a person or thing that is no longer effective, successful, popular, etc.
- headband — a band worn around the head; fillet.
- headbang — To engage in headbanging, the vigorous movement of the head in time to music.
- hebetant — causing dullness
- hellbent — stubbornly or recklessly determined.
- henbanes — Plural form of henbane.
- hibernal — of or relating to winter; wintry.
- hibernia — Ireland.
- hiberno- — denoting Irish or Ireland
- hipbones — Plural form of hipbone.
- homeborn — That which is born in a given place, native, indigenous.
- honeybee — any bee that collects and stores honey, especially Apis mellifera.
- honeybun — A type of bun or pastry sweetened with honey.
- hornbeak — a dialect name for a fish known as the garfish, hornfish or sea needle
- hornbeam — any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana (American hornbeam)
- huntable — capable of being hunted
- knobhead — a stupid person
- liebchen — A person who is very dear to another (often used as a term of endearment).
- nebbishy — a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- neophobe — One who dislikes new or novel things.
- newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- rathbone — Basil, 1892–1967, English actor, born in South Africa.
- rebranch — (of a branch, tree, evolutionary tree, etc) to branch again
- schnabel — Artur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1882–1951, Austrian pianist.
- schwaben — German name of Swabia.
- shin bet — the internal security service of Israel
- shinbone — the tibia.
- siegbahn — Karl Manne Georg [kahrl mahn-nuh yey-awr-yuh] /kɑrl ˈmɑn nə ˈyeɪ ɔr yə/ (Show IPA), 1886–1978, Swedish physicist: Nobel prize 1924.
- subniche — a subdivision of a niche
- sunbathe — to take a sunbath.
- thebaine — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 19 H 21 NO 3 , present in opium in small quantities, but having a strychninelike rather than a narcotic effect.
- unbathed — not bathed; unwashed
- unbreech — to remove the breeches from (a person)
- webphone — A telephone that connects through the internet.
- wishbone — a forked bone, formed by the fusion of the two clavicles, in front of the breastbone in most birds; furcula.