9-letter words containing h, e, t
- hotheaded — hot or fiery in spirit or temper; impetuous; rash: Hotheaded people shouldn't drive cars.
- hothoused — (of a child) having undergone hothousing
- hothouses — Plural form of hothouse.
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- hottentot — Khoikhoi.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- house-sit — to take care of a house or residence while the owner or occupant is temporarily away, especially by living in it.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- housecats — Plural form of housecat.
- housecoat — a woman's robe or dresslike garment in various lengths, for casual wear about the house.
- housekept — to keep or maintain a house.
- housemate — a person with whom one shares a house or other residence.
- housetops — Plural form of housetop.
- hoverport — A terminal for hovercraft.
- how then? — what is the meaning of this?
- howitzers — Plural form of howitzer.
- howtowdie — a Scottish dish of boiled chicken with poached eggs and spinach
- hucksters — Plural form of huckster.
- huckstery — the business of a huckster
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- humbert i — (Umberto I) 1844–1900, king of Italy 1878–1900.
- humectant — a substance that absorbs or helps another substance retain moisture, as glycerol.
- humectate — to humect ie to moisten, to wet
- humective — tending to moisten
- humiliate — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
- hundredth — next after the ninety-ninth; being the ordinal number for 100.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hunteress — Obsolete form of huntress.
- hustle up — to prepare quickly
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- hutterite — a member of an Anabaptist sect following the principles of Jacob Hutter (d. 1536) of Moravia and practicing community of goods and nonconformity.
- hybernate — Obsolete spelling of hibernate.
- hydathode — a specialized leaf structure through which water is exuded.
- hydrolyte — a substance subjected to hydrolysis.
- hyetology — the branch of meteorology dealing with precipitation.
- hygienist — an expert in hygiene.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hylophyte — a plant that grows in woods
- hymettian — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens. 3370 feet (1027 meters).
- hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypertext — a method of storing data through a computer program that allows a user to create and link fields of information at will and to retrieve the data nonsequentially.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hyphenate — to join by a hyphen.
- hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotize — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hypostome — any of several parts or organs of the mouth, as the labrum of a crustacean.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.