9-letter words containing a, b, s, h
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- hypobasis — the lowermost distinctively treated part of a base.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- isobathic — having the same depth.
- job share — If two people job share, they share the same job by working part-time, for example one person working in the mornings and the other in the afternoons.
- job-share — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- johnboats — Plural form of johnboat.
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lok sabha — the lower house of parliament in India.
- machabees — Maccabees (def 2).
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- memsahibs — Plural form of memsahib.
- misbehave — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- mosbacher — Emil, Jr ("Bus") 1922–1997, U.S. yacht racer and government official.
- mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- pea shrub — any of various small trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Caragana, of the legume family, native to central Asia, having showy, usually yellow flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- push back — force to retreat
- raise hob — to cause mischief or disturbance
- rheobasic — of or relating to rheobase
- sablefish — a large, blackish food fish, Anoplopoma fimbria, inhabiting waters of the North Pacific.
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- salt bath — a bath of molten salts in which steel can be immersed to soak to a uniform and accurately maintained temperature as part of the process of heat treatment. Different salts are used for different temperatures
- schoolbag — a bag used for carrying books, school supplies, etc.
- seborrhea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- shabbatot — Jewish Sabbaths and festivals
- shabbiest — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- shadberry — the fruit of a shadbush.
- shadowbox — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
- shaggable — sexually attractive
- shambling — to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
- shambolic — very disorganized; messy or confused: I’ve had a shambolic year, the worst ever.
- shankbone — a large bone in the lower leg between the knee and the foot of an animal; the tibia
- shark bay — a large inlet on the W coast of Western Australia, 800 km (500 miles) north of Perth; the coastline is over 1500 km (930 miles) long and has two large shallow embayments and numerous islands; noted for its large sea-grass beds, stromatolites, and colonies of dugong; a World Heritage site. Area: 2.2 million hectares. Pop: 900 (2014 est)
- sharpbill — a passerine bird, Oxyruncus cristatus, of New World tropical forests, having greenish plumage and a pointed bill, related to the tyrant flycatchers.
- sheboygan — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- sheddable — to pour forth (water or other liquid), as a fountain.
- shellback — an old sailor.
- shellbark — the shagbark tree.
- shewbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shillaber — a shill or someone who poses as a satisfied customer in order to encourage other buyers or participants
- shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
- shippable — being in a suitable form or condition for shipping1 .