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9-letter words containing h, o, b

  • bishopess — a bishop's wife
  • bishopric — A bishopric is the area for which a bishop is responsible, or the rank or office of being a bishop.
  • bisphenol — a synthetic organic compound used to make plastics and resins
  • blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
  • blockhead — a stupid person
  • blockhole — a mark or marks on a cricket pitch around the area where the batsman stands, caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the ground
  • blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
  • bloodbath — If you describe an event as a bloodbath, you are emphasizing that a lot of people were killed very violently.
  • bloodshed — Bloodshed is violence in which people are killed or wounded.
  • bloodshot — If your eyes are bloodshot, the parts that are usually white are red or pink. Your eyes can be bloodshot for a variety of reasons, for example because you are tired or you have drunk too much alcohol.
  • blow-hard — an exceptionally boastful and talkative person.
  • blowtorch — A blowtorch is the same as a blowlamp.
  • blue john — a blue or purple fibrous variety of fluorspar occurring only in Derbyshire: used for vases, etc
  • bluemouth — a deep water fish, Helicolenus dactylopterus
  • bluetooth — Bluetooth is a technology that allows computers, mobile phones and other devices to communicate with each other without being connected by wires.
  • boarhound — a hound used to chase boar
  • boat hook — a hook mounted at the end of a pole, used to pull or push boats toward or away from a landing, to pick up a mooring, etc.
  • boat shoe — a shoe, usually in a style somewhat like a moccasin, with a rubber sole suitable for walking on the deck of a boat
  • boathouse — A boathouse is a building at the edge of a lake, in which boats are kept.
  • bob-wheel — a metrical device found in Middle English and Middle Scots poetry, where a very short line (the 'bob') is followed by longer lines with an internal rhyme scheme (the 'wheel')
  • bobsleigh — A bobsleigh is a vehicle with long thin strips of metal fixed to the bottom, which is used for racing downhill on ice.
  • bodenheim — Maxwell, 1892–1954, U.S. poet and novelist.
  • bodh gaya — a village in central Bihar, in NE India: site of tree under which Siddhartha became the Buddha.
  • body hair — hair that grows on the body as opposed to the head or face
  • body shop — a place where the bodywork of motor vehicles is built or repaired
  • bodycheck — obstruction of another player
  • bodyshell — the external shell of a motor vehicle
  • boghazkoy — a village in N central Turkey: site of the ancient Hittite city of Hattusas.
  • bohr atom — See under Bohr theory.
  • bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
  • bolshevik — Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  • 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.
  • bomb hoax — a hoax consisting of telling the authorities that a bomb has been planted in a public place when in fact it hasn't
  • bombshell — A bombshell is a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
  • bombsight — a mechanical or electronic device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
  • bonhomous — exhibiting bonhomie
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • boom shot — a shot taken by a camera on a boom.
  • boot hill — a cemetery of a frontier settlement, especially one in which gunfighters were buried.
  • boot hook — one of a pair of L -shaped metal hooks fixed to a handle, for drawing on a boot by inserting it through a bootstrap.
  • boothroyd — Betty. Baroness. born 1929, British politician; speaker of the House of Commons (1992–2000)
  • booze hag — a girl or woman who drinks to excess
  • boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
  • borghetto — (in Italy) a settlement outside a city's walls
  • boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
  • botchedly — in a botched or clumsy manner
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