9-letter words containing h, e, a, s
- hot sauce — any of several highly spiced, pungent condiments, especially one containing some type of pepper or chili.
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- housecats — Plural form of housecat.
- housecoat — a woman's robe or dresslike garment in various lengths, for casual wear about the house.
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- housemate — a person with whom one shares a house or other residence.
- houseware — Homeware.
- hovhaness — Alan, 1911–2000, U.S. composer.
- huaraches — Plural form of huarache.
- humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.
- humanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humanize.
- humanness — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- husbanded — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hymeneals — (plurale tantum) Nuptials.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- hypopneas — Plural form of hypopnea.
- impeaches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impeach.
- ingathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingather.
- inhearsed — Simple past tense and past participle of inhearse.
- insheathe — ensheathe.
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- irish sea — a part of the Atlantic between Ireland and England.
- ischaemia — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- ischaemic — (UK, pathology, cardiology) alternative spelling of ischemic.
- isohaline — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- jailhouse — a jail or building used as a jail.
- jazz shoe — a man's plain, close-fitting, low-heeled oxford made of soft leather or other material and having a thin, flexible sole, worn for jazz dancing.
- job share — If two people job share, they share the same job by working part-time, for example one person working in the mornings and the other in the afternoons.
- job-share — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- kaffiyehs — Plural form of kaffiyeh.
- kahn test — a test for syphilis based on the formation of a precipitate in a mixture of serum and antigen.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- keelhauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of keelhaul.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- khamaseen — A cyclonic type wind that is common in Egypt and Sudan towards the end of March and April of each year. Hot weather ensues, as well as sandstorms.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- la chaise — Père François d'Aix de [frahn-swa de duh] /frɑ̃ˈswa dɛ də/ (Show IPA), 1624–1709, French Roman Catholic priest: confessor to Louis XIV.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampshell — Alternative form of lamp shell.
- lash line — a rope or cord for lashing together the edges of two flats or other pieces of theatrical scenery.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.