9-letter words containing a, d, e, r, s
- graduates — Plural form of graduate.
- grandeurs — the quality or state of being impressive or awesome: the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains.
- grandiose — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- grandness — impressive in size, appearance, or general effect: grand mountain scenery.
- grandsire — a grandfather.
- grapeseed — The seed of the grape.
- gravesend — a seaport in NW Kent, in SE England, on the Thames River: incorporated into Gravesham 1974.
- graveside — the area beside a grave.
- greensand — a sandstone containing much glauconite, which gives it a greenish hue.
- guardless — Defenceless.
- guardsmen — Plural form of guardsman.
- haberdash — To deal in small wares.
- hairslide — A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.
- handovers — Plural form of handover.
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- handsfree — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- handsomer — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- hard case — a tough person not swayed by sentiment
- hard lens — a contact lens of rigid plastic or silicon, exerting light pressure on the cornea of the eye, used for correcting various vision problems including astigmatism.
- hard news — serious news of widespread import, concerning politics, foreign affairs, or the like, as distinguished from routine news items, feature stories, or human-interest stories.
- hard sell — aggressive sales
- hard-case — rough and hard-bitten: hard-case juvenile delinquents.
- hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
- hard-sell — characterized by or promoted through a hard sell: hard-sell tactics.
- hardeners — Plural form of hardener.
- hardheads — any composite plant of the genus Centaurea, especially the weedy C. nigra, having rose-purple flowers set on a dark-colored, knoblike bract.
- hardiness — the capacity for enduring or sustaining hardship, privation, etc.; capability of surviving under unfavorable conditions.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- hardnosed — Describing a person who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
- hardwires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hardwire.
- harnessed — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
- harrassed — Simple past tense and past participle of harrass.
- harshened — Simple past tense and past participle of harshen.
- harvested — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- headdress — a covering or decoration for the head: a tribal headdress of feathers.
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- headraces — Plural form of headrace.
- headrails — Plural form of headrail.
- headrests — Plural form of headrest.
- headscarf — A square of fabric worn as a covering for the head, often folded into a triangle and knotted under the chin.
- headstart — Alternative spelling of head start.
- headwards — backwards beyond the original source
- headwords — Plural form of headword.
- heartseed — (botany) Any plant of the species of Cardiospermum, climbing plants with round seeds marked with a spot like a heart.
- hellwards — towards hell
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- hoarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of hoarsen.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.