9-letter words containing h, a, d, r, i
- hard-bill — a seed-eating bird.
- hard-boil — to boil (an egg) until the yolk and white have become firm or solid.
- hard-laid — describing a rope the lay of which is at a relatively great angle to its axis; short-laid.
- hard-line — adhering rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan; uncompromising or unyielding: hard-line union demands.
- harddrive — Alternative form of hard drive.
- hardening — a material that hardens another, as an alloy added to iron to make steel.
- hardihood — boldness or daring; courage.
- hardiment — hardihood.
- hardiness — the capacity for enduring or sustaining hardship, privation, etc.; capability of surviving under unfavorable conditions.
- hardliner — Alternative spelling of hard-liner.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- hardships — Plural form of hardship.
- hardwired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
- hardwires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hardwire.
- harigalds — the intestines of an animal
- harmdoing — the doing of harm
- harold ii — 1022?–66, king of England 1066: defeated by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings (son of Earl Godwin).
- harridans — Plural form of harridan.
- havildars — Plural form of havildar.
- hazarding — Present participle of hazard.
- head girl — The head girl of a school is the girl who is the leader of the prefects and who often represents the school on public occasions.
- head trip — a mentally exhilarating or productive experience, as one in which a person's intellect or imagination seems to expand.
- headchair — a chair with a support for the head
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- headliner — a performer whose name appears most prominently in a program or advertisement or on a marquee; star.
- headrails — Plural form of headrail.
- headright — Law. a beneficial interest for each member of an Indian tribe in the tribal trust fund accruing from the lease of tribal oil, gas, and mineral rights, the sale of tribal lands, etc.
- heathbird — the black grouse
- hebridean — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- heralding — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
- herniated — to protrude abnormally from an enclosed cavity or from the body so as to constitute a hernia.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- high road — A high road is a main road.
- hildegard — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
- hindbrain — the most posterior of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue, including the cerebellum, pons, and medulla oblongata; rhombencephalon.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- hirudinea — the class comprising the leeches.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holidayer — vacationer.
- hormisdas — Saint, died a.d. 523, pope 514–523.
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.
- hyder ali — 1722–82, Islamic prince and military leader of India: ruler of Mysore 1759–82.
- hydracids — Plural form of hydracid.
- hydraemia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hydramide — (organic compound) One of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes.
- hydramine — an amine derived from a glycol in which one hydroxyl is replaced by an amino group.
- hydrastis — goldenseal (def 2).