9-letter words containing e, r, o, n
- groningen — a city in the NE Netherlands.
- groomsmen — Plural form of groomsman.
- groove on — enjoy, appreciate
- grossness — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
- grosvenor — Gilbert Hovey, 1875–1966, U.S. geographer, writer, and editor.
- groundage — a tax levied on ships that anchor in a port.
- grounders — Plural form of grounder.
- groundsel — groundsill.
- groveling — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
- gunperson — (rare) A gunman or gunwoman.
- gunpowder — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.
- gyroplane — autogiro.
- habergeon — a short, sleeveless coat of mail.
- hand over — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handovers — Plural form of handover.
- handsomer — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- hang over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hanger-on — a person who remains in a place or attaches himself or herself to a group, another person, etc., although not wanted, especially in the hope or expectation of personal gain.
- hangerson — a person who remains in a place or attaches himself or herself to a group, another person, etc., although not wanted, especially in the hope or expectation of personal gain.
- hangovers — Plural form of hangover.
- hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
- hardnosed — Describing a person who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
- harmonies — Plural form of harmony.
- harmonise — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmonite — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmonize — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
- harpooner — a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
- hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- hectoring — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- heilbronn — a city in N Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- heliborne — transported by helicopter: heliborne troops.
- helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- henderson — Arthur, 1863–1935, British statesman and labor leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1934.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- heroinism — an addiction to heroin
- heronries — Plural form of heronry.
- heronshaw — a heron
- heteronym — a word spelled the same as another but having a different sound and meaning, as lead (to conduct) and lead (a metal).
- hexameron — hexaemeron.
- hieromonk — a monk who is also a priest.
- hoariness — The characteristic of being hoary.
- hoarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of hoarsen.
- hoarstone — A stone designating the bounds of an estate; a landmark.
- hobnobber — One who hobnobs.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.