9-letter words containing h, o, n, i, e
- 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.
- in a hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- in theory — in principle
- inheritor — a person who inherits; heir.
- innholder — innkeeper.
- ionophore — a lipid-soluble substance capable of transporting specific ions through cellular membranes.
- isochrone — a line, as on a map, connecting all points having some property simultaneously, as in having the same delay in receiving a radio signal from a given source or requiring the same time to be reached by available transportation from a given center.
- isohaline — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- johannine — of or relating to the apostle John or to the books in the New Testament attributed to him.
- josephine — Empress (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
- jotunheim — the outer world, or realm of giants; Utgard.
- koshering — Present participle of kosher.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- lionheart — a person of exceptional courage and bravery.
- lithopone — a white pigment consisting of zinc sulfide, barium sulfate, and some zinc oxide, used as a pigment and filler in the manufacture of paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powders.
- lohengrin — the son of Parzival, and a knight of the Holy Grail.
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- mischosen — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mochiness — a fusty, dank, or humid condition
- monkeyish — Like a monkey.
- monorhine — an animal that has one nasal orifice
- monteiths — Plural form of monteith.
- monthlies — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- moonshine — Informal. smuggled or illicitly distilled liquor, especially corn liquor as illicitly distilled chiefly in rural areas of the southern U.S.
- mothering — a female parent.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
- negrophil — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- neighbors — Plural form of neighbor.
- neighbour — a person who lives near another.
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- neogothic — of, relating to, or designating chiefly a style of architecture in which gothic motifs and forms are imitated.
- neohippie — Alternative form of neohippy.
- neolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
- neophilia — Love of new things.
- neophobia — Extreme or irrational fear or dislike of anything new, novel, or unfamiliar.
- neophobic — Afflicted by neophobia; fearing or disliking what is new.
- neophytic — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- nephrosis — kidney disease, especially marked by noninflammatory degeneration of the tubular system.
- nephrotic — Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
- neurochip — a semiconductor chip designed for use in an electronic neural network
- nictheroy — Niterói.
- nightrobe — A robe to be worn at night; a nightgown.
- nine-hole — (of a golf course) having nine holes; relating to a course having nine holes
- nineholes — a game in which the ground, or another object, is drilled with nine holes, each with its own scoring value, and a ball is rolled into them
- no-hitter — a no-hit game.