9-letter words containing d, i, s, h, r
- fishguard — a port and resort in SW Wales, in Pembrokeshire: ferry connections to Cork and Rosslare. Pop: 3193 (2001)
- friendish — Like, or relating to a friend.
- 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.
- garnished — Simple past tense and past participle of garnish.
- guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
- hairbands — Plural form of hairband.
- hairslide — A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.
- halliards — Plural form of halliard.
- handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
- handrails — Plural form of handrail.
- hard disk — magnetic disk (def 1).
- hard sign — the Cyrillic letter Ъ, ъ as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is not palatalized: not in official use since 1918.
- hardiness — the capacity for enduring or sustaining hardship, privation, etc.; capability of surviving under unfavorable conditions.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- hardships — Plural form of hardship.
- hardwires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hardwire.
- harigalds — the intestines of an animal
- harridans — Plural form of harridan.
- havildars — Plural form of havildar.
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- headrails — Plural form of headrail.
- heliodors — Plural form of heliodor.
- hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- historied — abounding in notable history; having an illustrious past; storied: Italy is a richly historied land.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hormisdas — Saint, died a.d. 523, pope 514–523.
- horridest — Superlative form of horrid.
- horsehide — the hide of a horse.
- hybridise — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
- hybridism — Also, hybridity [hahy-brid-i-tee] /haɪˈbrɪd ɪ ti/ (Show IPA). the quality or condition of being hybrid.
- hybridist — someone who hybridizes or cross-breeds (animals or plants)
- hybridous — of or relating to a hybrid
- hydracids — Plural form of hydracid.
- hydrastis — goldenseal (def 2).
- hydro-ski — a hydrofoil attached to a seaplane to aid in takeoffs and landings.
- hysteroid — resembling hysteria.
- ibn rushd — Arabic name of Averroës.
- ibn-rushd — Averroës
- inhearsed — Simple past tense and past participle of inhearse.
- inshrined — Simple past tense and past participle of inshrine.
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- isherwood — Christopher (William Bradshaw) [brad-shaw] /ˈbræd ʃɔ/ (Show IPA), 1904–86, English poet, novelist, and playwright; in the U.S. since 1938.
- isohydric — having the same acidity or hydrogen-ion concentration
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lordships — Plural form of lordship.
- mindshare — Relative public awareness of a phenomenon.
- misrhymed — badly rhymed