9-letter words containing s, h, a, b
- flashbulb — a glass bulb, filled with oxygen and aluminum or zirconium wire or foil, which, when ignited electrically, burns with a brilliant flash to provide momentary illumination of a subject.
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- flashtube — electronic flash.
- flushable — (of a toilet) That has a flushing mechanism.
- footbaths — Plural form of footbath.
- funabashi — a city in E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay.
- ghostball — (baseball) A type of pitch; the knuckleball.
- habaneras — Plural form of habanera.
- haberdash — To deal in small wares.
- hairballs — Plural form of hairball.
- hairbands — Plural form of hairband.
- hairbrush — a brush for smoothing and styling the hair.
- halfbacks — Plural form of halfback.
- halfbeaks — Plural form of halfbeak.
- handballs — Plural form of handball.
- handbasin — Washbasin.
- handbells — Plural form of handbell.
- handbills — Plural form of handbill.
- handbooks — Plural form of handbook.
- hansberry — Lorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harborers — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harborous — welcoming and offering hospitality
- hardbacks — Plural form of hardback.
- harebells — Plural form of harebell.
- harquebus — any of several small-caliber long guns operated by a matchlock or wheel-lock mechanism, dating from about 1400.
- hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
- hashbrown — Alternative spelling of hash brown.
- hashtable — Alternative spelling of hash table.
- haskell b — (language) An early version of Haskell by Lennart Augustsson <[email protected]> from Chalmers. Haskell B evolved into a full-featured implementation of Haskell 1.2, with quite a few extensions. Ports exist for many platforms including Sun, DEC, Sequent, IBM PC, Symmetry and unsupported versions for NS32000, IBM RT/PC, Cray, Sun-3, Vax, ARM, and RS/6000. Version 0.999.5 included a compiler, interpreter, library, documentation, and examples. Mailing list: <[email protected]>. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- hawkbills — Plural form of hawkbill.
- hawksbill — A small tropical sea turtle with hooked jaws and overlapping horny plates on the shell, extensively hunted as the traditional source of tortoiseshell.
- headbands — Plural form of headband.
- hebdomads — Plural form of hebdomad.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- hemoblast — hematoblast.
- herbalism — The study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, now especially as a form of alternative medicine.
- herbalist — a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
- hexabasic — containing six hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced or ionized: a hexabasic acid.
- hibakusha — a survivor of either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
- highballs — Plural form of highball.
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- home base — Baseball. home plate.
- hoofbeats — Plural form of hoofbeat.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- husbanded — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.