9-letter words containing a, n, h, o
- hopatcong — a town in N New Jersey.
- horizonal — relating to the horizon
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horntails — Plural form of horntail.
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- hornyhead — species of fish
- hortation — The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- hostaging — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- hot pants — (used with a plural verb) very brief and usually tight-fitting shorts for women and girls, first popularized in the early 1970s.
- hour hand — the hand that indicates the hours on a clock or watch.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- hovhaness — Alan, 1911–2000, U.S. composer.
- hu jintao — born 1942, Chinese Communist statesman; president of China (2003–2013)
- humanhood — the state or character of being human
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
- hydantoin — a colorless, needlelike, crystalline compound, C 3 H 4 N 2 O 2 , used in the synthesis of pharmaceutical substances and resins.
- hydration — any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water. In the case of some hydrates, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O, the water is loosely held and is easily lost on heating; in others, as sulfuric acid, SO 3 ⋅H 2 O, or H 2 SO 4 , it is strongly held as water of constitution.
- hydrazone — any of a class of compounds containing the group >C=NNH 2 .
- hydrolant — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Atlantic Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydronaut — a person trained to work in deep-sea vessels for research and rescue purposes.
- hydrovane — a vane on a seaplane conferring stability on water (a sponson) or facilitating take off (a hydrofoil)
- hydrozoan — any freshwater or marine coelenterate of the class Hydrozoa, including free-swimming or attached types, as the hydra, in which one developmental stage, either the polyp or medusa, is absent, and colonial types, as the Portuguese man-of-war, in which both medusa and polyp stages are present in a single colony.
- hynagogic — Misspelling of hypnagogic.
- hypernova — (astronomy) The gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole.
- hypnoidal — characterizing a state that resembles mild hypnosis but that is usually induced by other than hypnotic means.
- hypomania — a mania of low intensity.
- hypomanic — Afflicted with a mild state of mania.
- hyponasty — increased growth along the lower surface of a plant or plant part, causing it to bend upward.
- hypopneas — Plural form of hypopnea.
- hypopnoea — Alternative spelling of hypopnea.
- hypotonia — An abnormal loss of muscle tone.
- in a hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- indochina — a peninsula in SE Asia, between the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea, comprising Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, W Malaysia, and Burma (Myanmar).
- inhabitor — One who inhabits.
- inhalator — an apparatus designed to mix carbon dioxide and oxygen, especially for use in artificial respiration.
- inharmony — Lack of harmony.
- iron hand — strict or harsh control: The general governed the country with an iron hand.
- isanthous — having regular flowers.
- isohaline — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- jargonish — jargonistic
- johannine — of or relating to the apostle John or to the books in the New Testament attributed to him.
- john paul — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- johnboats — Plural form of johnboat.
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- kantharos — a deep bowl set upon a stem terminating in a foot and having two handles rising from the brim and curving downward to join the body.
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- kniphofia — Any of several plants, of the genus Kniphofia, having bright, upright flowers.