9-letter words containing h, y, b
- by halves — without being thorough or exhaustive
- by inches — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- by rights — If something is not the case but you think that it should be, you can say that by rights it should be the case.
- by the by — incidentally
- by weight — as determined by weighing
- byam shaw — Glen Alexander. 1904–81, British actor and theatre director; director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (1953–59)
- chalybean — of or relating to the Chalybes, an ancient tribe of central Asia noted for their skill with iron and steel
- chalybite — siderite (def 1).
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- choir-boy — a boy who sings in a choir, especially a church choir.
- choirboys — Plural form of choirboy.
- cubbyhole — A cubbyhole is a very small room or space for storing things.
- cybercash — Funds used in electronic financial transactions, especially over the Internet.
- cyberchat — Chat that takes place on the Internet, as in a chatroom or via instant messages.
- cybergoth — (uncountable) A subculture combining elements of goth and rave culture, typically involving energetic electronic music and brightly coloured, futuristic clothing.
- cyberhack — Computers. hack1 (def 22b).
- cyberrhea — (humour, jargon) /si:'ber-eer/ An affliction of some word processor users; excessive frequency and looseness of productivity. Particularly virulent among those who have not discovered the fortifying virtues of revision.
- cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
- cynophobe — A person with cynophobia.
- dihybrids — Plural form of dihybrid.
- dithyramb — a Greek choral song or chant of vehement or wild character and of usually irregular form, originally in honor of Dionysus or Bacchus.
- doughboys — Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
- dyushambe — a former name of Dushanbe.
- eyebright — any scrophulariaceous annual plant of the genus Euphrasia, esp E. nemorosa, having small white-and-purple two-lipped flowers: formerly used in the treatment of eye disorders
- fishyback — a cargo supply chain involving container transfer from lorry to ship
- gynophobe — a person who hates or fears women
- habitably — capable of being inhabited.
- habitancy — the act or fact of inhabiting; inhabitancy.
- hackberry — any of several trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Celtis, of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit.
- hansberry — Lorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.
- happen by — chance upon
- hawke bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the E coast of North Island, New Zealand.
- herbivory — The eating of plants, especially ones that are still living.
- herbology — the study or collecting of herbs, especially as a hobby.
- heritably — In a heritable manner.
- high moby — /hi:' mohb'ee/ The high half of a 512K PDP-10's physical address space; the other half was of course the low moby. This usage has been generalised in a way that has outlasted the PDP-10; for example, at the 1990 Washington D.C. Area Science Fiction Conclave (Disclave), when a miscommunication resulted in two separate wakes being held in commemoration of the shutdown of MIT's last ITS machines, the one on the upper floor was dubbed the "high moby" and the other the "low moby". All parties involved grokked this instantly. See moby.
- hillbilly — a term used to refer to a person from a backwoods or other remote area, especially from the mountains of the southern U.S. (sometimes used facetiously).
- hindberry — a raspberry
- hobbyists — Plural form of hobbyist.
- hobbyless — without any hobby or hobbies
- holy lamb — paschal lamb (def 4).
- homebuyer — a person who buys or expects to buy a house.
- 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.
- honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.