9-letter words containing a, n, d, r
- 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 porn — hard-core pornography.
- hard sign — the Cyrillic letter Ъ, ъ as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is not palatalized: not in official use since 1918.
- hard-line — adhering rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan; uncompromising or unyielding: hard-line union demands.
- hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- hardanger — embroidery openwork having elaborate symmetrical designs created by blocks of satin stitches within which threads of the embroidery fabric are removed.
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- hardeners — Plural form of hardener.
- hardening — a material that hardens another, as an alloy added to iron to make steel.
- hardiment — hardihood.
- hardiness — the capacity for enduring or sustaining hardship, privation, etc.; capability of surviving under unfavorable conditions.
- hardliner — Alternative spelling of hard-liner.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- hardnosed — Describing a person who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
- hardstand — a hard-surfaced area on which heavy vehicles or airplanes can be parked.
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
- harmdoing — the doing of harm
- harnessed — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
- harridans — Plural form of harridan.
- harshened — Simple past tense and past participle of harshen.
- hazarding — Present participle of hazard.
- headliner — a performer whose name appears most prominently in a program or advertisement or on a marquee; star.
- hearkened — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- heartened — to give courage or confidence to; cheer.
- heartland — the part of a region considered essential to the viability and survival of the whole, especially a central land area relatively invulnerable to attack and capable of economic and political self-sufficiency.
- hebridean — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- helengrad — a satirical name for Wellington as the seat of Helen Clark's socialist government from 1999 to 2008
- heralding — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
- hermandad — an informal police force in Spain
- hernandez — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1834–86, Argentine poet.
- herniated — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- hindbrain — the most posterior of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue, including the cerebellum, pons, and medulla oblongata; rhombencephalon.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- hirudinea — the class comprising the leeches.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hoarhound — an Old World plant, Marrubium vulgare, of the mint family, having downy leaves and small, whitish flowers, and containing a bitter, medicinal juice that is used as an expectorant, vermifuge, and laxative.
- hoarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of hoarsen.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- hollander — John, 1929–2013, U.S. poet and critic.
- hornyhead — species of fish
- hour hand — the hand that indicates the hours on a clock or watch.
- hundredal — Of or pertaining to a hundred (administrative unit).
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hydramine — an amine derived from a glycol in which one hydroxyl is replaced by an amino group.