9-letter words containing h, e, a
- hard sell — aggressive sales
- hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hard-case — rough and hard-bitten: hard-case juvenile delinquents.
- hard-core — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hard-edge — of, relating to, or characteristic of a style of abstract painting associated with the 1960s and marked chiefly by sharply outlined geometric or nongeometric forms.
- hard-line — adhering rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan; uncompromising or unyielding: hard-line union demands.
- hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
- hard-sell — characterized by or promoted through a hard sell: hard-sell tactics.
- hardanger — embroidery openwork having elaborate symmetrical designs created by blocks of satin stitches within which threads of the embroidery fabric are removed.
- hardcover — a book bound in cloth, leather, or the like, over stiff material: Hardcovers are more durable than paperbacks.
- harddrive — Alternative form of hard drive.
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- hardeners — Plural form of hardener.
- hardening — a material that hardens another, as an alloy added to iron to make steel.
- hardheads — any composite plant of the genus Centaurea, especially the weedy C. nigra, having rose-purple flowers set on a dark-colored, knoblike bract.
- 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.
- hardnosed — Describing a person who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
- 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.
- harebells — Plural form of harebell.
- harestail — a species of cotton grass, Eriophorum vaginatum, more tussocky than common cotton grass and having only a single flower head
- hariolate — to practise divination or to prophesy
- harkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- harlemite — a native or inhabitant of Harlem.
- harlequin — (often initial capital letter) a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.
- harlingen — a city in S Texas.
- harmaline — a chemical derived from the harmala plant, used as a hallucinogen or used in conjunction with other hallucinogens
- 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.
- harmotome — a zeolite mineral related to stilbite, occurring in twinned crystals.
- harnessed — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
- harnesser — One who harnesses.
- harnesses — Plural form of harness.
- harp seal — a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale-yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur.
- 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.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- harquebus — any of several small-caliber long guns operated by a matchlock or wheel-lock mechanism, dating from about 1400.
- harrassed — Simple past tense and past participle of harrass.
- harrogate — a town in N England, in North Yorkshire: a former spa, now a centre for tourism and conferences. Pop: 70 811 (2001 est)
- harshened — Simple past tense and past participle of harshen.
- harshness — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
- harumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of harumph.