9-letter words containing d, a, h
- 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.
- hesitated — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
- hexachord — a diatonic series of six tones having, in medieval music, a half step between the third and fourth tones and whole steps between the others.
- hexahedra — plural of hexahedron: solid figure with six plane faces
- hexaploid — having a chromosome number that is six times the haploid number.
- hexapodal — of or relating to the hexapods
- heyerdahl — Thor [too r] /tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1914–2002, Norwegian ethnologist and author.
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- high road — A high road is a main road.
- highdaddy — a highboy having no drawers in the supporting frame.
- highlands — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
- highstand — (geology) An interval during which the sea level was above the edge of a continental shelf.
- hildegard — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
- hillsdale — a town in NE New Jersey.
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- 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.
- hindshank — the meat from an animal's hind leg
- hindustan — Persian name of India, especially the part N of the Deccan.
- hippodame — a sea horse
- hirudinea — the class comprising the leeches.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- hit squad — a team of hit men, as one organized for the purpose of assassinating a political figure.
- 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.
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- hodmandod — (obsolete) A snail.
- hodograph — the figure described by the extremity of a vector that has a fixed origin and a position vector equal to the velocity of a moving particle.
- hogsheads — Plural form of hogshead.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- hold sway — have influence
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- holdfasts — Plural form of holdfast.
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- holidayed — Simple past tense and past participle of holiday.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- hollander — John, 1929–2013, U.S. poet and critic.
- hollandia — former name of Jayapura.
- holy land — Palestine (def 1).
- home-made — made or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts: The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homestand — (baseball) A series of games played at a team's home field.
- homestead — a town in S Florida.