9-letter words containing h, o, b, l
- bolt hole — a hole in the ground, protected opening in bushes, etc., into which an animal can flee when pursued or frightened.
- bolt-hole — If you say that someone has a bolt-hole to go to, you mean that there is somewhere that they can go when they want to get away from people that they know.
- bombshell — A bombshell is a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
- booklight — a small light that can be clipped onto a book for reading by
- bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
- boot hill — a cemetery of a frontier settlement, especially one in which gunfighters were buried.
- botchedly — in a botched or clumsy manner
- boughless — (of trees) having no boughs
- box lunch — A box lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- boxholder — a person who has rented or subscribed for a box, as at a theatrical performance, sporting event, or the like.
- boxwallah — an itinerant pedlar or salesman in India
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- brotherly — A man's brotherly feelings are feelings of love and loyalty which you expect a brother to show.
- bung-hole — a hole in a cask through which it is filled.
- carbachol — a cholinergic agent, C6H15ClN2O2, used for various ophthalmic purposes, such as the treating of glaucoma
- charbroil — to grill (meat) over charcoal
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- chokeable — to stop the breath of by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe; strangle; stifle.
- choosable — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- chopblock — butcher-block.
- clubhouse — A clubhouse is a place where the members of a club, especially a sports club, meet.
- coachable — capable of being coached
- cohesible — capable of cohesion
- coolibahs — Plural form of coolibah.
- cubbyhole — A cubbyhole is a very small room or space for storing things.
- deathblow — a thing or event that destroys life or hope, esp suddenly
- doughball — a small ball of bread dough, cooked in a stew, as an accompaniment to a meal, etc
- fishbowls — Plural form of fishbowl.
- flash mob — a group of people mobilized by social media to meet in a public place for the purpose of doing an unusual or entertaining activity of short duration: The flash mob brought wide smiles to the faces of commuters waiting for their train.
- ghostball — (baseball) A type of pitch; the knuckleball.
- globefish — puffer (def 2).
- half boot — a boot reaching about halfway to the knee.
- half-boot — a boot reaching about halfway to the knee.
- halobiont — an organism that thrives in a saline environment.
- halophobe — a creature that is unable to live in salty conditions
- handblown — (of glassware) shaped by means of a handheld blowpipe: handblown crystal.
- hard-boil — to boil (an egg) until the yolk and white have become firm or solid.
- heel bone — calcaneus.
- heilbronn — a city in N Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- heliborne — transported by helicopter: heliborne troops.
- hellbound — Bound for Hell; damned.
- hellbroth — a magical broth prepared for an evil purpose, as in black magic.
- hellebore — any of several plants of the genus Helleborus, of the buttercup family, having basal leaves and clusters of flowers, especially H. niger, the Christmas rose.
- hemoblast — hematoblast.
- herbology — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- hezbollah — a radical Shiʿite Muslim organization in Lebanon engaged in guerrilla warfare against Israel.
- hillsboro — a town in NW Oregon.
- hobbyless — without any hobby or hobbies
- hobgoblin — something causing superstitious fear; a bogy.
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.