10-letter words containing h, o, b
- hot-button — exciting strong feelings; highly charged; emotional: hot-button issues.
- hotblooded — Spirited, rash, reckless.
- houseboats — Plural form of houseboat.
- housebound — restricted to the house, as by bad weather or illness.
- housebreak — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- housebroke — Simple past form of housebreak.
- hoverboard — (science fiction) A levitating board that can be ridden in the manner of a surfboard or skateboard.
- hu yaobang — 1915–89, Chinese Communist leader: general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party 1981–87.
- hucklebone — hipbone.
- hudson bay — a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).
- hullabaloo — a clamorous noise or disturbance; uproar.
- human body — the physical structure and material substance of a human being, consisting of many billions of cells as well as components outside of the cells: The average adult human body is 50–65% water.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- hurlbarrow — a wheelbarrow
- hybridomas — Plural form of hybridoma.
- hydrophobe — a hydrophobic substance.
- hydrophoby — Archaic form of hydrophobia.
- hygrophobe — a plant that grows best with little or no moisture
- hyoid bone — the horseshoe-shaped bone that lies at the base of the tongue and above the thyroid cartilage or a corresponding bone or group of bones in other vertebrates
- hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperboles — Plural form of hyperbole.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hypoblasts — Plural form of hypoblast.
- hypsophobe — a person who suffers from hypsophobia
- inhabitors — Plural form of inhabitor.
- inhibition — the act of inhibiting.
- inhibitors — Plural form of inhibitor.
- inhibitory — to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
- irish boat — a small fishing boat used in the Boston area in the late 19th century, derived from an Irish model and having a cutter rig.
- jacobethan — noting or pertaining to the architecture of England at the beginning of the 17th century.
- job hopper — a person who job-hops
- jobholders — Plural form of jobholder.
- jobsworths — Plural form of jobsworth.
- john cabot — John (Giovanni Caboto) c1450–98? Italian navigator in the service of England: discoverer of North American mainland 1497.
- johnny reb — U.S. History. a Confederate soldier.
- jonah crab — a large, red, deepwater crab, Cancer borealis, of the east coast of North America.
- kenophobia — an abnormal fear of empty spaces
- khabarovsk — Formerly Far Eastern Region. a territory of the Russian Federation in NE Asia. 965,400 sq. mi. (2,500,400 sq. km).
- knob latch — a latch having a spring bolt controlled by a knob on one or both sides.
- kohlrabies — Plural form of kohlrabi.
- kota bharu — a state in Malaysia, on the central Malay Peninsula. 5750 sq. mi. (14,893 sq. km). Capital: Kota Bharu.
- lightboard — switchboard (def 2).
- logophobia — an obsessive fear of words.
- long beach — a city in SW California, S of Los Angeles: a seaside resort.
- lunchboxes — Plural form of lunchbox.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.