9-letter words containing h, o, b
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- boughless — (of trees) having no boughs
- bountyhed — the quality of being bounteous
- bow shock — the shock front along which the solar wind encounters a planet's magnetic field.
- bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
- 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.
- box-fresh — unused or unspoiled; straight from the packaging
- 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
- boyshorts — women's underpants which resemble close-fitting shorts, sitting below the waist and stretching to the tops of the legs
- branchio- — gills
- brewhouse — a brewery
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- broach to — to turn or swing so that the beam faces the waves and wind and there is danger of swamping or capsizing
- broachers — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broadhead — a flat, triangular, steel arrowhead with sharp edges.
- brochette — a skewer or small spit, used for holding pieces of meat, etc, while roasting or grilling
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- brood hen — a hen kept for breeding
- brotherly — A man's brotherly feelings are feelings of love and loyalty which you expect a brother to show.
- brush off — If someone brushes you off when you speak to them, they refuse to talk to you or be nice to you.
- brush-off — a refusal to talk or listen to someone; abrupt or final dismissal or rebuff.
- brushwood — Brushwood consists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.
- brushwork — An artist's brushwork is their way of using their brush to put paint on a canvas and the effect that this has in the picture.
- bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- buck moth — a saturniid moth, Hemileuca maia, having delicate, grayish wings with a white band.
- buckhound — a hound, smaller than a staghound, used for hunting the smaller breeds of deer, esp fallow deer
- buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
- bucktooth — a projecting upper front tooth
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- bung-hole — a hole in a cask through which it is filled.
- bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
- bunny hop — a jump executed with the feet held tightly together and the knees bent
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- bush hook — Dialect. a tool with a curved blade and long handle used to cut bushes and undergrowth.
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- by choice — willingly, of one's free will
- cabochons — Plural form of cabochon.
- carbachol — a cholinergic agent, C6H15ClN2O2, used for various ophthalmic purposes, such as the treating of glaucoma
- cash-book — a journal in which all cash or cheque receipts and disbursements are recorded
- cashbooks — Plural form of cashbook.
- chapbooks — Plural form of chapbook.
- charbroil — to grill (meat) over charcoal
- chawbacon — an unsophisticated person of low intellect
- check box — square for marking with a tick
- checkbook — a book containing detachable forms for writing checks on a bank