9-letter words containing h, o, b
- highbrows — Plural form of highbrow.
- hillsboro — a town in NW Oregon.
- hip boots — waders: thigh-high rubber boots
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- hobbitses — (humorous, nonstandard) Plural form of hobbit.
- hobbyists — Plural form of hobbyist.
- hobbyless — without any hobby or hobbies
- hobgoblin — something causing superstitious fear; a bogy.
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- hobnobbed — Simple past tense and past participle of hobnob.
- hobnobber — One who hobnobs.
- hobohemia — A community of hoboes.
- hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- holy lamb — paschal lamb (def 4).
- home base — Baseball. home plate.
- home-brew — beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.
- homebirth — Childbirth taking place at home, rather than in a hospital.
- homebound — confined to one's home, especially because of illness.
- homebuilt — Constructed at home, rather than being obtained from a manufacturer etc.
- homebuyer — a person who buys or expects to buy a house.
- homophobe — a person who fears or hates homosexuals and homosexuality.
- honey bun — Also called sticky bun. a sweet spiral-shaped bun, usually with cinnamon, raisins, and nuts, coated with honey or butter and brown sugar.
- honey-bee — any bee that collects and stores honey, especially Apis mellifera.
- honeybees — Plural form of honeybee.
- honeybird — Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.
- honeycomb — a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
- honorable — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- hoofbeats — Plural form of hoofbeat.
- hoofbound — (of horses and other hoofed animals) having the heels of the hoofs dry and contracted, causing lameness.
- hook bolt — a bolt bent in a hooklike form at one end and threaded for a nut at the other.
- hoop back — a chair back having the uprights and crest rail in a continuous arched form.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- hornbills — Plural form of hornbill.
- hornbooks — Plural form of hornbook.
- horribley — Misspelling of horribly.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- houseboys — Plural form of houseboy.
- how about — introducing a suggestion
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- hydrobomb — an aerial torpedo equipped with a rocket engine that propels it after the torpedo has entered the water.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hymn book — Also called hymnbook [him-boo k] /ˈhɪmˌbʊk/ (Show IPA). a book of hymns for use in a religious service.
- hymnbooks — Plural form of hymnbook.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.