9-letter words containing a, w, h, o
- handtowel — a small piece of thick soft cloth used to dry the hands
- handwoven — made on a handloom; handloomed.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hansetown — Hansa (def 3).
- hardwoods — Plural form of hardwood.
- harrowing — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- hashbrown — Alternative spelling of hash brown.
- hawk moth — any of numerous moths of the family Sphingidae, noted for their very swift flight and ability to hover while sipping nectar from flowers.
- hawksmoor — Nicholas, 1661–1736, English architect.
- haworthia — any of various succulent plants of the genus Haworthia, native to South Africa, having densely overlapping, often warty leaves clustered in rosettes.
- hawsehole — a hole in the stem or bow of a vessel for an anchor cable.
- hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- hawthorns — Plural form of hawthorn.
- hawthorny — resembling or characterized by hawthorns
- hazelwood — a town in E Missouri.
- headwords — Plural form of headword.
- heartwood — the hard central wood of the trunk of an exogenous tree; duramen.
- heartworm — a parasitic nematode, Dirofilaria immitis, transmitted by mosquito and invading the heart and pulmonary arteries of dogs, wolves, and foxes throughout its range in tropical, subtropical and, more recently, temperate regions around the world.
- heronshaw — a heron
- hogwaller — Alternative spelling of hog waller.
- hold sway — have influence
- holloware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- hot water — trouble; a predicament: His skipping classes will get him into real hot water when exam time comes.
- houseware — Homeware.
- how about — introducing a suggestion
- kahoolawe — an island in central Hawaii, S of Maui: uninhabited. 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km).
- kwangchow — Older Spelling. Canton.
- lowlihead — lowly state; lowliness.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- marshwort — A small, white-flowered plant, of the genus Apium, that grows in marshy habitats.
- matchwood — wood suitable for match.
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- matholwch — a legendary king of Ireland and the husband of Branwen.
- mathworks — The MathWorks, Inc.
- mold wash — a coating applied in liquid form to walls of a mold cavity.
- mollyhawk — the juvenile of the southern black-backed gull, Larus dominicanus
- mouthwash — a solution, often containing antiseptic, astringent, and breath-sweetening agents, used for cleansing the mouth and teeth, and for gargling.
- narrowish — somewhat narrow
- northward — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
- oakenshaw — an area of woodland containing oak trees
- ohm's law — the law that for any circuit the electric current is directly proportional to the voltage and is inversely proportional to the resistance.
- outwashes — Plural form of outwash.
- overwatch — to watch over.
- patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- pawn shop — shop that makes loans on personal property