9-letter words containing h, i, n
- ashkenazi — of or relating to the Jews of Germany and E Europe
- ashlaring — ashlars collectively
- athanasia — deathlessness; immortality.
- athelings — Plural form of atheling.
- athenians — Plural form of Athenian.
- attaching — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- audiphone — a type of hearing aid consisting of a diaphragm that, when placed against the upper teeth, conveys sound vibrations to the inner ear
- aughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- authentic — An authentic person, object, or emotion is genuine.
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- avouching — Present participle of avouch.
- axanthism — (zoology) Absence of yellow pigmentation.
- b horizon — the layer of a soil profile immediately below the A horizon, containing deposits of leached material
- baboonish — resembling a baboon
- bad thing — (jargon) (From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: Good Thing. British correspondents confirm that Bad Thing and Good Thing (and probably therefore Right Thing and Wrong Thing) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.
- baldachin — a richly ornamented silk and gold brocade
- bandished — Simple past tense and past participle of bandish.
- bandwidth — A bandwidth is the range of frequencies used for a particular telecommunications signal, radio transmission, or computer network.
- banishing — Present participle of banish.
- bankerish — resembling or befitting a banker, especially in being perceived as reserved and conservative in dress and demeanor: a model of bankerish decorum.
- bashed in — crushed or dented from a blow
- bathonian — of or relating to Bath
- bauhinias — Plural form of bauhinia.
- bechstein — Karl. 1826–1900, German piano maker; founder (1853) of the Bechstein company of piano manufacturers in Berlin
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone
- behmenism — Boehmenism.
- behmenist — Boehmenist.
- beholding — to observe; look at; see.
- benedight — blessed
- benighted — If you describe people or the place where they live as benighted, you think they are unfortunate or do not know anything.
- benighter — a person who keeps others in darkness
- bernhardi — Friedrich A. J. von [free-drikh fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1849–1930, German general.
- bethankit — (used as part of a grace spoken before a meal) God be thanked!
- bhikkhuni — a fully ordained Buddhist nun
- bhikshuni — a female bhikshu; nun.
- big night — an important and usually anticipated evening
- billionth — The billionth item in a series is the one you count as number one billion.
- bimonthly — A bimonthly event or publication happens or appears every two months.
- binh dinh — former home of An Nhon.
- birthname — a name given at birth
- bisphenol — a synthetic organic compound used to make plastics and resins
- bleaching — to make whiter or lighter in color, as by exposure to sunlight or a chemical agent; remove the color from.
- blighting — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
- blindfish — any of various small fishes, esp the cavefish, that have rudimentary or functionless eyes and occur in subterranean streams
- blindheim — Blenheim
- blinglish — a form of spoken English that blends British English with Black youth slang
- bodenheim — Maxwell, 1892–1954, U.S. poet and novelist.
- bony fish — any fish of the class Osteichthyes, including most of the extant species, having a skeleton of bone rather than cartilage
- boohooing — to weep noisily; blubber.
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.