8-letter words containing i, b, n, h
- branchia — a gill in aquatic animals
- brandish — If you brandish something, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
- brighten — If someone brightens or their face brightens, they suddenly look happier.
- brighton — a coastal resort in S England, in Brighton and Hove unitary authority, East Sussex: patronized by the Prince Regent, who had the Royal Pavilion built (1782); seat of the University of Sussex (1966) and the University of Brighton (1992). Pop: 134 293 (2001)
- bronchia — the ramifications or branches of the bronchi.
- brownish — Something that is brownish is slightly brown in colour.
- brunhild — (in the Nibelungenlied) a legendary queen won for King Gunther by the magic of Siegfried: corresponds to Brynhild in Norse mythology
- brynhild — a Valkyrie won as the wife of Gunnar by Sigurd who wakes her from an enchanted sleep: corresponds to Brunhild in the Nibelungenlied
- bukharin — Nikolai Ivanovich (nikaˈlaj iˈvanəvitʃ). 1888–1938, Soviet Bolshevik leader: executed in one of Stalin's purges
- bulfinch — Charles1763-1844; U.S. architect
- bunchily — in a bunchy manner
- bunching — a connected group; cluster: a bunch of grapes.
- bunfight — a tea party
- bushline — an airline that flies over sparsely inhabited territory to serve isolated settlements.
- cherubin — Obsolete form of cherub.
- chibchan — a family of Indian languages found in Colombia and elsewhere in South America
- chin job — a cosmetic operation to improve the shape of the chin
- chinbeak — a molding having a convex upper surface and a concave lower one, with a fillet between them; beak.
- chinbone — the front part of the jawbone that constitutes the chin
- disbench — to remove (a barrister or judge) from the membership of the governing body of one of the Inns of Court
- fishbone — A bone from a fish.
- habitant — an inhabitant.
- habiting — Present participle of habit.
- hairband — A band for securing or tying back one's hair.
- handbill — a small printed notice, advertisement, or announcement, usually for distribution by hand.
- hangbird — a bird that builds a hanging nest, especially the Baltimore oriole.
- hannibal — 247–183 b.c, Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps and invaded Italy (son of Hamilcar Barca).
- hibernal — of or relating to winter; wintry.
- hibernia — Ireland.
- hiberno- — denoting Irish or Ireland
- highborn — of high rank by birth.
- hindlimb — Alternative spelling of hind limb.
- hipbones — Plural form of hipbone.
- his nibs — a mock title used of someone in authority
- hobbling — to walk lamely; limp.
- hobnails — Plural form of hobnail.
- hornbill — any large bird of the family Bucerotidae, of the Old World tropics, characterized by a very large bill usually surmounted by a horny protuberance.
- humbling — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- infobahn — information superhighway.
- inhabits — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- inhibits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inhibit.
- kinboshi — (sumo) an honour awarded to a rikishi of maegashira rank upon beating a yokozuna.
- liebchen — A person who is very dear to another (often used as a term of endearment).
- morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
- nebbishy — a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
- neighbor — a person who lives near another.
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- phubbing — to ignore (a person or one's surroundings) when in a social situation by busying oneself with a phone or other mobile device: Hey, are you phubbing me? I hate to see a mother wheeling a stroller while phubbing her baby.
- pinchbug — a stag beetle
- shin bet — the internal security service of Israel