9-letter words containing d, h, u
- fraughted — Simple past tense and past participle of fraught.
- furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- furthered — at or to a greater distance; farther: I'm too tired to go further.
- galumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of galumph.
- gazehound — one of any of several breeds of hounds, as the Afghan, borzoi, greyhound, Saluki, or whippet, that hunts by sighting the game rather than by scent.
- gold rush — a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.
- gorehound — an enthusiast of gory horror films
- grayhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- grewhound — a greyhound
- greyhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- groundhog — woodchuck.
- guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
- guideship — the position of a guide
- guildhall — (in Britain) the hall built or used by a guild or corporation for its assemblies; town hall.
- guildship — guild (defs 1, 2).
- gumshield — a plate or strip of soft waxy substance used by boxers to protect the teeth and gums
- hacked up — (jargon, programming) Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
- hackitude — (jargon) An even sillier word for hackishness.
- hadrosaur — a bipedal dinosaur of the genus Hadrosaurus, belonging to the ornithopod family Hadrosauridae of the late Cretaceous Period, having broad, flat jaws for scooping up water plants.
- half-used — previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car.
- handbound — (of books) bound by hand.
- handcuffs — a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person's wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle: The police put handcuffs on the suspect.
- handguard — A guard on the front of a weapon for hand and finger protection, or to allow for attachments to the weapon.
- hands up! — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handsturn — an amount of work or the period of time spent doing a piece of work
- harangued — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- harboured — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard drug — an addicting drug capable of producing severe physical or psychological dependence, as heroin.
- hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- hardcourt — relating to a type of tennis court that is made of hard material
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- harumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of harumph.
- hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
- hastilude — A medieval martial game.
- hazardous — full of risk; perilous; risky: a hazardous journey.
- head smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by a dark-brown, powdery mass of spores replacing the affected seed heads, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Sorosporium, Sphacelotheca, and Ustilago.
- head-butt — strike sb with your forehead
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- headguard — a padded helmet worn to protect the head in contact sports such as rugby and boxing
- heavy mud — a dense substance made of a mixture of the mineral barite and water that is thickened with polymers
- heedfully — In a heedful manner.
- hellbound — Bound for Hell; damned.
- hellhound — a mythical watchdog of hell.
- hereunder — under or below this; subsequent to this.
- herodotus — 484?–425? b.c, Greek historian.
- hiccupped — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- hidebound — narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant.