9-letter words containing e, i, n, d, h
- hidebound — narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant.
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- hindberry — a raspberry
- hindemith — Paul, 1895–1963, U.S. composer, born in Germany.
- hindenbug — (humour) A catastrophic, data-destroying bug, after the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster.
- hindering — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- hipped on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
- hipped-on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
- 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.
- 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;
- hive mind — the property of apparent sentience in a colony of social insects acting as a single organism, each insect performing a specific role for the good of the group.
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- hoidenish — Alternative form of hoydenish.
- holderlin — Johann Christian Friedrich [yoh-hahn kris-tee-ahn free-drikh] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1770–1843, German poet.
- holinshed — Raphael, died c1580, English chronicler.
- honeybird — Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.
- hoydenish — a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
- hoydenism — The behaviour of a hoyden.
- humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.
- humanized — to make humane, kind, or gentle.
- humdinger — a person, thing, action, or statement of remarkable excellence or effect.
- humidness — Humidity.
- hydramine — an amine derived from a glycol in which one hydroxyl is replaced by an amino group.
- hydrazine — Also called diamine. a colorless, oily, fuming liquid, N 2 H 4 , that is a weak base in solution and forms a large number of salts resembling ammonium salts: used chiefly as a reducing agent and a jet-propulsion fuel.
- hymnodies — Plural form of hymnody.
- hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
- ideophone — A word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
- idiophone — An instrument the whole of which vibrates to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped, such as a bell, gong, or rattle.
- inchanted — Simple past tense and past participle of inchant.
- indepthly — (nonstandard) in depth.
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- inhabited — having inhabitants; occupied; lived in or on: an inhabited island.
- inhearsed — Simple past tense and past participle of inhearse.
- inherited — to take or receive (property, a right, a title, etc.) by succession or will, as an heir: to inherit the family business.
- inhibited — overly restrained.
- inlighted — Lit up or lighted; illuminated.
- innholder — innkeeper.
- inshrined — Simple past tense and past participle of inshrine.
- intefadeh — Alternative spelling of intifada.
- intendeth — Archaic third-person singular form of intend.
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- inveighed — Simple past tense and past participle of inveigh.
- lightened — to become less severe, stringent, or harsh; ease up: Border inspections have lightened recently.
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- lindbergh — Anne (Spencer) Morrow, 1906–2001, U.S. writer (wife of Charles Augustus Lindbergh).
- linewidth — (physics) a measure of the width of the band of frequencies of radiation emitted or absorbed in an atomic or molecular transition; a result of the uncertainty principle.