9-letter words containing h, o, a
- autophyte — an autotrophic plant, such as any green plant
- autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
- auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
- avouching — Present participle of avouch.
- ayatollah — An ayatollah is a type of Muslim religious leader.
- babashoff — Shirley, born 1957, U.S. swimmer.
- baboonish — resembling a baboon
- babyhouse — A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture.
- bachelors — Plural form of bachelor.
- bachelour — Obsolete form of bachelor.
- backcloth — A backcloth is a large piece of cloth, often with scenery or buildings painted on it, that is hung at the back of a stage while a play is being performed.
- backhouse — an outdoor privy; outhouse
- backshore — the area of a beach above the usual high tide mark
- bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- bahookies — Plural form of bahookie.
- bakehouse — a building or room to bake in; bakery.
- bakeshops — Plural form of bakeshop.
- bakuchiol — A meroterpene phenol, extracted from seeds of Psoralea corylifolia, that shows antimicrobial activity.
- ballyhoos — Plural form of ballyhoo.
- bank shot — Basketball. a shot into the basket, made by rebounding the ball off the backboard.
- bar chord — a musical chord that is played on a stringed instrument using the barré technique.
- barachois — (in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada) a shallow lagoon formed by a sand bar
- barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
- barkcloth — Cloth made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry or similar tree.
- barocchio — Giacomo (ˈdʒakomo)
- barograph — a self-recording aneroid barometer
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- bartholdi — Frédéric August. 1834–1904, French sculptor and architect, who designed (1884) the Statue of Liberty
- basophile — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
- basophils — Plural form of basophil.
- bass horn — an obsolete wind instrument of low range
- batchelor — (British) alternative spelling of bachelor.
- bath bomb — a ball of carbonates and scent that is placed in bath water to dissolve and impart supposedly therapeutic properties to the water
- bathhouse — A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths and often other facilities such as a sauna.
- batholite — (obsolete) alternative name of batholith.
- batholith — a very large irregular-shaped mass of igneous rock, esp granite, formed from an intrusion of magma at great depth, esp one exposed after erosion of less resistant overlying rocks
- bathonian — of or relating to Bath
- bathrobes — Plural form of bathrobe.
- bathrooms — Plural form of bathroom.
- bay shore — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- beachcomb — to search for and collect objects such as seashells and driftwood along the seashore
- beachgoer — a person who goes to the beach, esp frequently
- beadhouse — an almshouse in which inhabitants were expected to pray for the soul of the founder
- beam hole — a hole in the shield of a nuclear reactor through which a beam of radiation, esp of neutrons, is allowed to escape for experimental purposes
- bean shot — refined copper having a shotlike form from being thrown into water in a molten state.
- beasthood — the state of beasts, the condition of being a beast
- behaviors — manner of behaving or acting.