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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+.
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