9-letter words containing d, h, o, w
- hold sway — have influence
- hold with — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- hollywood — the NW part of Los Angeles, Calif.: center of the American motion-picture industry.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- honeydews — Plural form of honeydew.
- hoodwinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink.
- horseweed — a North American composite weed, Erigeron canadensis, having narrow, hairy leaves and clusters of very small greenish-white flowers.
- horsewood — A West Indian tree, Calliandra latifolia, with showy crimson blossoms.
- hose down — spray sth clean
- how-de-do — a greeting; salutation: She smiled and gave him a how-do-you-do fit for a king.
- howl down — to utter a loud, prolonged, mournful cry, as that of a dog or wolf.
- howlround — the condition, resulting in a howling noise, when sound from a loudspeaker is fed back into the microphone of a public-address or recording system
- howtowdie — a Scottish dish of boiled chicken with poached eggs and spinach
- hull down — the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship, floating partially submerged and supporting the remainder of the ship.
- hunt down — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- isherwood — Christopher (William Bradshaw) [brad-shaw] /ˈbræd ʃɔ/ (Show IPA), 1904–86, English poet, novelist, and playwright; in the U.S. since 1938.
- lightwood — Also called fatwood. kindling.
- lowlihead — lowly state; lowliness.
- matchwood — wood suitable for match.
- mold wash — a coating applied in liquid form to walls of a mold cavity.
- newshound — A newspaper reporter.
- northward — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
- old welsh — the Welsh language of the period before c1150 a.d.
- pewholder — a person who leases or is the owner of a pew or an area of seats in a church
- phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
- push-down — a sudden, downward shift by an aircraft in the direction of the flight path.
- road show — touring performance or display
- road-show — of or relating to road shows.
- seldshown — seldom shown
- shadowbox — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
- shadowily — in a shadowy way or manner
- shadowing — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shakedown — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
- shootdown — the attack and destruction of an aircraft in flight.
- shoreward — Also, shorewards. toward the shore or land.
- shoreweed — a tufty aquatic perennial, Littorella uniflora, of the plantain family, that forms underwater mats but usually flowers only on muddy margins
- shorewood — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- show card — an advertising placard or card.
- showbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
- showcased — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- shut down — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
- slideshow — a presentation of photographic slides, or images on a transparent base, placed in a projector and viewed sequentially on a screen.
- southdown — one of an English breed of sheep, yielding mutton of high quality.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- swinehood — the quality or condition of a swine
- swordfish — a large, marine food fish, Xiphias gladius, having the upper jaw elongated into a swordlike structure.
- the crowd — the common people; the masses
- the sword — violence, warfare
- the wolds — a range of chalk hills in NE England: consists of the Yorkshire Wolds to the north, separated from the Lincolnshire Wolds by the Humber estuary
- the-downs — a range of low ridges in S and SW England.