9-letter words containing d, r, e, a, h
- earth-god — a god of fertility and vegetation.
- earthward — Also, earthwards. toward the earth.
- ecohazard — any substance or activity that poses a threat to a habitat or an environment: Off-the-road motorcycling is an ecohazard to fragile desert habitats.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- enthraled — (rare) Simple past tense and past participle of enthral.
- ermahgerd — (slang, humorous, or, sarcastic) non-gloss An exclamation of excitement, surprise, amazement, or shock.
- faidherbe — Louis Léon César. 1818–89, French soldier and governor of Senegal (1854–65); founder of Dakar
- feathered — clothed, covered, or provided with feathers, as a bird or an arrow.
- floorhead — the upper side of a floor timber on a boat or ship
- forehands — Plural form of forehand.
- foreheads — Plural form of forehead.
- fraughted — Simple past tense and past participle of fraught.
- free hand — unrestricted freedom or authority: They gave the decorator a free hand.
- free-hand — unrestricted freedom or authority: They gave the decorator a free hand.
- garnished — Simple past tense and past participle of garnish.
- gasholder — gasometer (def 2).
- goatherds — Plural form of goatherd.
- godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
- graphited — Modified by the addition of graphite.
- greenhand — an inexperienced person, esp a sailor
- greenhead — a male mallard.
- haberdash — To deal in small wares.
- haberdine — a cod that has been dried and salted
- hagridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- hairdryer — (chiefly UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.
- hairslide — A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.
- hand over — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-rear — (of a person) to keep and look after (a young animal or bird) in place of its mother, until it is old enough to be used for work or food, or until it can look after itself
- hand-ride — to ride (a horse) in a race without using a whip or spurs, urging it on with only the hands.
- handbrake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- handlebar — Usually, handlebars. the curved steering bar of a bicycle, motorcycle, etc., placed in front of the rider and gripped by the hands. handlebar moustache.
- handovers — Plural form of handover.
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- handsfree — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- handsomer — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handwrite — to write (something) by hand.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- 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 case — a tough person not swayed by sentiment
- hard core — pornography: obscene
- hard doer — a tough worker at anything
- hard fern — a common tufted erect fern of the polypody family, Blechnum spicant, having dark-green lanceolate leaves: it prefers acid soils, and in the US is sometimes grown as deer feed
- hard head — semirefined tin containing iron.
- hard left — You use hard left to describe those members of a left wing political group or party who have the most extreme political beliefs.
- hard lens — a contact lens of rigid plastic or silicon, exerting light pressure on the cornea of the eye, used for correcting various vision problems including astigmatism.
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- hard news — serious news of widespread import, concerning politics, foreign affairs, or the like, as distinguished from routine news items, feature stories, or human-interest stories.
- hard sell — aggressive sales
- hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.