9-letter words containing h, o, n, r, i
- historian — an expert in history; authority on history.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hoariness — The characteristic of being hoary.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- 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.
- hollering — to cry aloud; shout; yell: Quit hollering into the phone.
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
- honeybird — Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.
- honoraria — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
- honorific — Also, honorifical. doing or conferring honor.
- honouring — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- hoofprint — the impression made by an animal's hoof.
- hoop iron — iron in the form of thin strips for bonding masonry, holding barrels together, etc.
- hooraying — Present participle of hooray.
- hoovering — to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
- horizonal — relating to the horizon
- hornbills — Plural form of hornbill.
- horniness — consisting of a horn or a hornlike substance; corneous.
- hornpipes — Plural form of hornpipe.
- horntails — Plural form of horntail.
- hornywink — a lapwing
- horsemint — a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
- horsiness — The quality of being, or resembling, a horse.
- hortation — The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- humouring — humor.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- 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+.
- in chorus — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- in theory — in principle
- inchworms — Plural form of inchworm.
- ingrowths — Plural form of ingrowth.
- inhabitor — One who inhabits.
- inhalator — an apparatus designed to mix carbon dioxide and oxygen, especially for use in artificial respiration.
- inharmony — Lack of harmony.
- inheritor — a person who inherits; heir.
- inhibitor — a person or thing that inhibits.
- innholder — innkeeper.
- inwrought — worked in or closely combined with something.
- ionophore — a lipid-soluble substance capable of transporting specific ions through cellular membranes.
- iron hand — strict or harsh control: The general governed the country with an iron hand.
- ironsmith — a worker in iron; blacksmith.
- 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.
- isochrony — the fact or state of occurrence at the same time; contemporaneity.
- jargonish — jargonistic
- king horn — the earliest extant verse romance (late 13th century) in the English language.
- kórinthos — an ancient city in Greece, on the Isthmus of Corinth: one of the wealthiest and most powerful of the ancient Greek cities.
- koshering — Present participle of kosher.