9-letter words containing h, o
- authorize — If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
- autobahns — Plural form of autobahn.
- autograph — An autograph is the signature of someone famous which is specially written for a fan to keep.
- autophagy — the consumption of one's own tissue by biting oneself
- autophoby — the reluctance to refer to oneself or be egotistical
- autophone — (archaic) idiophone.
- autophony — a diagnosis made by listening to vibration of one's own voice on the patient's chest
- autophyte — an autotrophic plant, such as any green plant
- autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
- auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
- avouching — Present participle of avouch.
- ayatollah — An ayatollah is a type of Muslim religious leader.
- b horizon — the layer of a soil profile immediately below the A horizon, containing deposits of leached material
- babashoff — Shirley, born 1957, U.S. swimmer.
- baboonish — resembling a baboon
- babyhouse — A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture.
- bachelors — Plural form of bachelor.
- bachelour — Obsolete form of bachelor.
- backcloth — A backcloth is a large piece of cloth, often with scenery or buildings painted on it, that is hung at the back of a stage while a play is being performed.
- backhouse — an outdoor privy; outhouse
- backshore — the area of a beach above the usual high tide mark
- bad mouth — Slang. to speak critically and often disloyally of; disparage: Why do you bad-mouth your family so much?
- bad-mouth — If someone bad-mouths you, they say unpleasant things about you, especially when you are not there to defend yourself.
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- bahookies — Plural form of bahookie.
- bakehouse — a building or room to bake in; bakery.
- bakeshops — Plural form of bakeshop.
- bakuchiol — A meroterpene phenol, extracted from seeds of Psoralea corylifolia, that shows antimicrobial activity.
- ballyhoos — Plural form of ballyhoo.
- bank shot — Basketball. a shot into the basket, made by rebounding the ball off the backboard.
- bar chord — a musical chord that is played on a stringed instrument using the barré technique.
- barachois — (in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada) a shallow lagoon formed by a sand bar
- barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
- barkcloth — Cloth made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry or similar tree.
- barocchio — Giacomo (ˈdʒakomo)
- barograph — a self-recording aneroid barometer
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- bartholdi — Frédéric August. 1834–1904, French sculptor and architect, who designed (1884) the Statue of Liberty
- basophile — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
- basophils — Plural form of basophil.
- bass horn — an obsolete wind instrument of low range
- batchelor — (British) alternative spelling of bachelor.
- bath bomb — a ball of carbonates and scent that is placed in bath water to dissolve and impart supposedly therapeutic properties to the water
- bathhouse — A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths and often other facilities such as a sauna.
- batholite — (obsolete) alternative name of batholith.
- batholith — a very large irregular-shaped mass of igneous rock, esp granite, formed from an intrusion of magma at great depth, esp one exposed after erosion of less resistant overlying rocks
- bathonian — of or relating to Bath
- bathrobes — Plural form of bathrobe.
- bathrooms — Plural form of bathroom.