9-letter words containing d, i, s, h
- headrails — Plural form of headrail.
- headsails — Plural form of headsail.
- headships — Plural form of headship.
- headstick — a piece of wood formerly used in typesetting to create a margin at the top of a page
- headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
- heaviside — Oliver, 1850–1925, English physicist.
- hedonists — Plural form of hedonist.
- heediness — heedfulness; attentiveness
- helicoids — Plural form of helicoid.
- helidecks — Plural form of helideck.
- heliodors — Plural form of heliodor.
- hemipodes — Plural form of hemipode.
- hendiadys — a figure in which a complex idea is expressed by two words connected by a copulative conjunction: “to look with eyes and envy” instead of “with envious eyes.”.
- hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- hesitated — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- hideosity — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hideously — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hideyoshi — Toyotomi [taw-yaw-taw-mee] /ˈtɔ yɔˈtɔ mi/ (Show IPA), 1536–98, Japanese general and statesman: prime minister and dictator of Japan 1585–98.
- highlands — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
- highspeed — Alternative form of high-speed.
- highstand — (geology) An interval during which the sea level was above the edge of a continental shelf.
- hillsdale — a town in NE New Jersey.
- hillsides — Plural form of hillside.
- hindlimbs — Plural form of hindlimb alternative spelling of hind limbs.
- hindooism — the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.
- hindshank — the meat from an animal's hind leg
- hindsight — recognition of the realities, possibilities, or requirements of a situation, event, decision etc., after its occurrence.
- hindustan — Persian name of India, especially the part N of the Deccan.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- histidine — an essential amino acid, C 3 H 3 N 2 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, that is a constituent of proteins and is important as the iron-binding site in hemoglobin. Symbol: H. Abbreviation: His;
- historied — abounding in notable history; having an illustrious past; storied: Italy is a richly historied land.
- hit squad — a team of hit men, as one organized for the purpose of assassinating a political figure.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hoidenish — Alternative form of hoydenish.
- holinshed — Raphael, died c1580, English chronicler.
- home side — the team that is playing on its home ground
- homicides — Plural form of homicide.
- hominoids — Plural form of hominoid.
- hoodooism — the practice of or belief in voodoo.
- hoodwinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink.
- hormisdas — Saint, died a.d. 523, pope 514–523.
- horridest — Superlative form of horrid.
- horsehide — the hide of a horse.
- houndfish — Tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae.
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- hoydenish — a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
- hoydenism — The behaviour of a hoyden.
- humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.