9-letter words containing d, h, u
- hideously — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hierodule — a slave in service in an ancient Greek temple.
- hindenbug — (humour) A catastrophic, data-destroying bug, after the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster.
- hindustan — Persian name of India, especially the part N of the Deccan.
- hired gun — a person hired to kill someone, as a gunfighter or professional killer.
- hirudinea — the class comprising the leeches.
- hirundine — of, relating to, or resembling the swallow.
- 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.
- 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.
- hold true — If a general statement holds true in particular circumstances, or if your previous statement holds true in different circumstances, it is true or valid in those circumstances.
- homebound — confined to one's home, especially because of illness.
- hoofbound — (of horses and other hoofed animals) having the heels of the hoofs dry and contracted, causing lameness.
- hopped up — excited; enthusiastic; exuberant, especially overexuberant.
- hopped-up — excited; enthusiastic; exuberant, especially overexuberant.
- hordeolum — sty2 .
- horehound — 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.
- hothoused — (of a child) having undergone hothousing
- hound dog — Chiefly Southern U.S. Dialect. hound1 (def 1).
- houndfish — Tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae.
- hour hand — the hand that indicates the hours on a clock or watch.
- house red — a red wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- household — the people of a house collectively; a family including its servants.
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- 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
- huff-duff — a method used by the Allies in World War II for locating enemy submarines and other naval or land targets through simultaneous bearings on their radio transmissions.
- hull down — the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship, floating partially submerged and supporting the remainder of the ship.
- humanhood — the state or character of being human
- humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.
- humanized — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humankind — human beings collectively; the human race.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- humbugged — Simple past tense and past participle of humbug.
- humdinger — a person, thing, action, or statement of remarkable excellence or effect.
- humidness — Humidity.
- humoredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) American standard spelling of humouredly.
- hundredal — Of or pertaining to a hundred (administrative unit).
- hundreder — An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred (administrative subdivision).
- hundredth — next after the ninety-ninth; being the ordinal number for 100.
- hunt down — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- hurriedly — moving or working rapidly, especially forced or required to hurry, as a person.
- husbanded — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- hydraulic — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydraulus — a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.
- hydronaut — a person trained to work in deep-sea vessels for research and rescue purposes.
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.