9-letter words containing h, o, d, i, n
- 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.
- ethnocide — The deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group.
- eunuchoid — Resembling a eunuch, typically in having reduced or indeterminate sexual characteristics.
- fashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of fashion.
- fish pond — small lake for keeping fish
- fishponds — Plural form of fishpond.
- fishpound — a submerged net used in commercial fishing for capturing fish.
- foodchain — Alternative spelling of food chain.
- gianthood — the condition of being a giant
- godolphin — Sidney, 1st Earl of, 1645–1712, English statesman and financier.
- goldfinch — a European finch, Carduelis carduelis, having a crimson face and wings marked with yellow.
- goodnight — a farewell or leave-taking: He said his good-nights before leaving the party.
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- harmdoing — the doing of harm
- hedonists — Plural form of hedonist.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- hidebound — narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant.
- hindooism — the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.
- hipped on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
- hipped-on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- hoidenish — Alternative form of hoydenish.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holderlin — Johann Christian Friedrich [yoh-hahn kris-tee-ahn free-drikh] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1770–1843, German poet.
- holinshed — Raphael, died c1580, English chronicler.
- hollandia — former name of Jayapura.
- hominoids — Plural form of hominoid.
- honeybird — Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.
- hoodooing — voodoo.
- hoodwinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink.
- houndfish — Tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae.
- hoydenish — a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
- hoydenism — The behaviour of a hoyden.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- hydantoin — a colorless, needlelike, crystalline compound, C 3 H 4 N 2 O 2 , used in the synthesis of pharmaceutical substances and resins.
- hydration — any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water. In the case of some hydrates, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O, the water is loosely held and is easily lost on heating; in others, as sulfuric acid, SO 3 ⋅H 2 O, or H 2 SO 4 , it is strongly held as water of constitution.
- hydronium — (inorganic chemistry) the hydrated hydrogen ion, H3O+.
- hymnodies — Plural form of hymnody.
- hymnodist — the singing or the composition of hymns or sacred songs.
- hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
- hypnoidal — characterizing a state that resembles mild hypnosis but that is usually induced by other than hypnotic means.
- hypnotoid — resembling or similar to hypnosis
- ideophone — A word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
- idiophone — An instrument the whole of which vibrates to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped, such as a bell, gong, or rattle.
- indochina — a peninsula in SE Asia, between the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea, comprising Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, W Malaysia, and Burma (Myanmar).
- inholding — a tract of land under private ownership within a national park.
- innholder — innkeeper.
- iron hand — strict or harsh control: The general governed the country with an iron hand.