9-letter words containing d, s, n
- handsturn — an amount of work or the period of time spent doing a piece of work
- 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 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 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.
- hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- hardeners — Plural form of hardener.
- hardiness — the capacity for enduring or sustaining hardship, privation, etc.; capability of surviving under unfavorable conditions.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- hardnosed — Describing a person who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
- hardstand — a hard-surfaced area on which heavy vehicles or airplanes can be parked.
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
- harnessed — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
- harridans — Plural form of harridan.
- harshened — Simple past tense and past participle of harshen.
- hat stand — tall structure to hang hats on
- headbands — Plural form of headband.
- headiness — intoxicating: a heady wine.
- headlands — Plural form of headland.
- headlines — Plural form of headline.
- headnotes — Plural form of headnote.
- headstand — an act or instance of supporting the body in a vertical position by balancing on the head usually with the aid of the hands.
- headstone — a stone marker set at the head of a grave; gravestone.
- headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
- hedonists — Plural form of hedonist.
- heediness — heedfulness; attentiveness
- henderson — Arthur, 1863–1935, British statesman and labor leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1934.
- 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.
- highlands — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
- highstand — (geology) An interval during which the sea level was above the edge of a continental shelf.
- 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.
- 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;
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hoarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of hoarsen.
- hoidenish — Alternative form of hoydenish.
- holinshed — Raphael, died c1580, English chronicler.
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homestand — (baseball) A series of games played at a team's home field.
- hominoids — Plural form of hominoid.
- honeydews — Plural form of honeydew.
- hoodwinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink.
- horsepond — A pond for watering horses.
- hose down — spray sth clean
- houndfish — Tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae.