9-letter words containing h, e, d, r, o
- haverford — a township in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- headboard — a board forming the head of anything, especially of a bed.
- headwords — Plural form of headword.
- heartwood — the hard central wood of the trunk of an exogenous tree; duramen.
- hedgerows — Plural form of hedgerow.
- helidrome — a small airport for helicopters
- heliodors — Plural form of heliodor.
- henderson — Arthur, 1863–1935, British statesman and labor leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1934.
- herd-book — a book containing the pedigrees of breeds of pigs, cattle, etc
- herdbooks — Plural form of herdbook.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- herodotus — 484?–425? b.c, Greek historian.
- herpetoid — reptilian, reptiliform
- heterodox — not in accordance with established or accepted doctrines or opinions, especially in theology; unorthodox.
- heteropod — any marine invertebrate with a foot or feet adapted for swimming
- hexachord — a diatonic series of six tones having, in medieval music, a half step between the third and fourth tones and whole steps between the others.
- hierodule — a slave in service in an ancient Greek temple.
- historied — abounding in notable history; having an illustrious past; storied: Italy is a richly historied land.
- hoarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of hoarsen.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- hodometer — Dated form of odometer.
- hold fire — If you hold fire in a situation, you delay before taking action.
- hold over — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- hold true — If a general statement holds true in particular circumstances, or if your previous statement holds true in different circumstances, it is true or valid in those circumstances.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- holderlin — Johann Christian Friedrich [yoh-hahn kris-tee-ahn free-drikh] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1770–1843, German poet.
- holdovers — Plural form of holdover.
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- hollander — John, 1929–2013, U.S. poet and critic.
- holohedry — The condition of a crystal whose point group is identical to that of its lattice.
- holstered — a sheathlike carrying case for a firearm, attached to a belt, shoulder sling, or saddle.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- honeybird — Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.
- hoped-for — Hoped-for is used to describe something that people would like to happen, and which they usually think is likely or possible.
- hordeolum — sty2 .
- horehound — an Old World plant, Marrubium vulgare, of the mint family, having downy leaves and small, whitish flowers, and containing a bitter, medicinal juice that is used as an expectorant, vermifuge, and laxative.
- hornyhead — species of fish
- horridest — Superlative form of horrid.
- horrified — showing or indicating great shock or horror: a horrified gasp; a horrified expression.
- horsehead — moonfish (def 1).
- horsehide — the hide of a horse.
- horsepond — A pond for watering horses.
- horseweed — a North American composite weed, Erigeron canadensis, having narrow, hairy leaves and clusters of very small greenish-white flowers.
- horsewood — A West Indian tree, Calliandra latifolia, with showy crimson blossoms.
- hotdogger — One who hotdogs; a sporting show-off.
- house red — a red wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- humoredly — (only in combination with good, bad or ill) American standard spelling of humouredly.
- hydrazone — any of a class of compounds containing the group >C=NNH 2 .
- hydrocele — an accumulation of serous fluid, usually about the testis.