9-letter words containing h, a, i, d
- head wind — wind blowing head-on
- 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.
- headiness — intoxicating: a heady wine.
- headlight — a light or lamp, usually equipped with a reflector, on the front of an automobile, locomotive, etc.
- headlined — Simple past tense and past participle of headline.
- headliner — a performer whose name appears most prominently in a program or advertisement or on a marquee; star.
- headlines — Plural form of headline.
- headpiece — a piece of armor for the head; helmet.
- 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.
- headsails — Plural form of headsail.
- headships — Plural form of headship.
- headstick — a piece of wood formerly used in typesetting to create a margin at the top of a page
- headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
- heathbird — the black grouse
- heaviside — Oliver, 1850–1925, English physicist.
- 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).
- hemi-head — a cylinder head having hemispherical combustion chambers.
- 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.”.
- 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.
- hesitated — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
- hexaploid — having a chromosome number that is six times the haploid number.
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- high road — A high road is a main road.
- highdaddy — a highboy having no drawers in the supporting frame.
- 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.
- hildegard — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
- hillsdale — a town in NE New Jersey.
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- 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.
- hindshank — the meat from an animal's hind leg
- hindustan — Persian name of India, especially the part N of the Deccan.
- hippodame — a sea horse
- hirudinea — the class comprising the leeches.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- hit squad — a team of hit men, as one organized for the purpose of assassinating a political figure.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holidayed — Simple past tense and past participle of holiday.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- hollandia — former name of Jayapura.
- homicidal — of or relating to homicide.
- hormisdas — Saint, died a.d. 523, pope 514–523.