9-letter words containing h, e, d, r
- freshened — Simple past tense and past participle of freshen.
- friedrich — a male given name.
- friendish — Like, or relating to a friend.
- furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- furthered — at or to a greater distance; farther: I'm too tired to go further.
- garnished — Simple past tense and past participle of garnish.
- 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
- graphited — Modified by the addition of graphite.
- greenhand — an inexperienced person, esp a sailor
- greenhead — a male mallard.
- grewhound — a greyhound
- greyhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- haberdash — To deal in small wares.
- haberdine — a cod that has been dried and salted
- hagridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- hairdryer — (chiefly UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.
- hairslide — A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.
- hand over — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-rear — (of a person) to keep and look after (a young animal or bird) in place of its mother, until it is old enough to be used for work or food, or until it can look after itself
- hand-ride — to ride (a horse) in a race without using a whip or spurs, urging it on with only the hands.
- handbrake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- handlebar — Usually, handlebars. the curved steering bar of a bicycle, motorcycle, etc., placed in front of the rider and gripped by the hands. handlebar moustache.
- handovers — Plural form of handover.
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- handsfree — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- handsomer — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handwrite — to write (something) by hand.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- harangued — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- 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 case — a tough person not swayed by sentiment
- hard core — pornography: obscene
- hard doer — a tough worker at anything
- hard fern — a common tufted erect fern of the polypody family, Blechnum spicant, having dark-green lanceolate leaves: it prefers acid soils, and in the US is sometimes grown as deer feed
- hard head — semirefined tin containing iron.
- hard left — You use hard left to describe those members of a left wing political group or party who have the most extreme political beliefs.
- hard lens — a contact lens of rigid plastic or silicon, exerting light pressure on the cornea of the eye, used for correcting various vision problems including astigmatism.
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- hard news — serious news of widespread import, concerning politics, foreign affairs, or the like, as distinguished from routine news items, feature stories, or human-interest stories.
- 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.