9-letter words containing d, e, a, c
- hard case — a tough person not swayed by sentiment
- hard core — pornography: obscene
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- hard-case — rough and hard-bitten: hard-case juvenile delinquents.
- hard-core — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hardcover — a book bound in cloth, leather, or the like, over stiff material: Hardcovers are more durable than paperbacks.
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
- hat dance — a Mexican folk dance in which the man places his sombrero on the ground as an offer of love and the woman dances on the hat's brim and then places the hat on her head to indicate her acceptance of him.
- hatcheled — Simple past tense and past participle of hatchel.
- head chef — professional cook who runs a kitchen
- head cold — a form of the common cold characterized especially by nasal congestion and sneezing.
- head lice — lice which lay eggs in human hair
- headaches — Plural form of headache.
- headcanon — (fandom slang) Elements and interpretations of a fictional universe accepted by an individual fan, but not found within or supported by the official canon.
- headcases — Plural form of headcase.
- headchair — a chair with a support for the head
- headcloth — any cloth for covering the head, as a turban or wimple.
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- headpiece — a piece of armor for the head; helmet.
- headraces — Plural form of headrace.
- headreach — the distance made to windward while tacking
- headscarf — A square of fabric worn as a covering for the head, often folded into a triangle and knotted under the chin.
- headspace — empty space left above the contents of a closed jar, can, or other container.
- headstick — a piece of wood formerly used in typesetting to create a margin at the top of a page
- headstock — the part of a machine containing or directly supporting the moving or working parts, as the assembly supporting and driving the live spindle in a lathe.
- heathclad — Clad or crowned with heath.
- 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.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- hyperacid — Highly acidic.
- hypercard — A software package by Bill Atkinson for storage and retrieval of information on the Macintosh. It can handle images and is designed for browsing. The powerful customisable interactive user interface allows new applications to be easily constructed by manipulating objects on the screen, often without conventional programming, though the language HyperTalk can be used for more complex tasks.
- ice dance — any of a number of dances, mostly based on ballroom dancing, performed by a couple skating on ice
- icecapped — having an icecap
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- icelandic — of or relating to Iceland, its inhabitants, or their language.
- ideaistic — of ideas, especially in their abstract or symbolic character.
- identical — similar or alike in every way: The two cars are identical except for their license plates.
- ideoscape — (according to w Arjun Appadurai) The global flow of ideologies.
- iechyd da — a drinking toast; good health; cheers
- immediacy — the state, condition, or quality of being immediate.
- impeached — Simple past tense and past participle of impeach.
- impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- inchanted — Simple past tense and past participle of inchant.
- increased — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- increated — Simple past tense and past participle of increate.
- incubated — Simple past tense and past participle of incubate.
- indexical — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- indicated — to be a sign of; betoken; evidence; show: His hesitation really indicates his doubt about the venture.
- indicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indicate.