9-letter words containing h, e, d, r, o
- dogshores — the pieces of timber used to prop up a boat prior to its launch
- dordrecht — a city in SW Netherlands, on the Waal River.
- doughtier — Comparative form of doughty.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- drag shoe — a type of braking device on a vehicle
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dreamhole — a light-admitting hole in a tower
- drillhole — a hole drilled in the ground, usually for exploratory purposes
- droshkies — Plural form of droshky.
- earth-god — a god of fertility and vegetation.
- echiuroid — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Echiuroidea, found in sand and mud of tropical and subtropical seas, having at the mouth a ciliated, often elongated prostomium.
- echo word — a word that is echoic (sense 2), or onomatopoeic
- ecohazard — any substance or activity that poses a threat to a habitat or an environment: Off-the-road motorcycling is an ecohazard to fragile desert habitats.
- edgeworth — Maria, 1767–1849, English novelist.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- endomorph — A person with a soft round body build and a high proportion of fat tissue.
- endorheic — (of a lake or basin) Internally drained; having no outlet.
- endorphin — Any of a group of hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system and having a number of physiological functions. They are peptides that activate the body’s opiate receptors, causing an analgesic effect.
- endotherm — An animal that is dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat; a warm-blooded animal.
- enshrouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enshroud.
- enthroned — Formally placed in a position.
- eriophyid — a type of microscopic mite that causes plant damage
- erythroid — Of or relating to erythrocytes.
- euthyroid — having a thyroid gland that functions normally
- ferhoodle — to confuse or mix up: Don't ferhoodle the things in that drawer.
- floorhead — the upper side of a floor timber on a boat or ship
- forehands — Plural form of forehand.
- foreheads — Plural form of forehead.
- freeholds — Plural form of freehold.
- gasholder — gasometer (def 2).
- goatherds — Plural form of goatherd.
- godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
- godmother — a woman who serves as sponsor for a child at baptism.
- gooseherd — a person who tends geese.
- gorehound — an enthusiast of gory horror films
- grewhound — a greyhound
- greyhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- 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.
- harboured — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard core — pornography: obscene
- hard doer — a tough worker at anything
- hard-core — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
- hardcover — a book bound in cloth, leather, or the like, over stiff material: Hardcovers are more durable than paperbacks.
- 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.
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.