9-letter words containing h, o, n, s
- headnotes — Plural form of headnote.
- headstone — a stone marker set at the head of a grave; gravestone.
- hedonists — Plural form of hedonist.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- hemolysin — a substance, as an antibody, that in cooperation with complement causes dissolution of red blood cells.
- hen-house — a shelter for poultry.
- henderson — Arthur, 1863–1935, British statesman and labor leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1934.
- henhouses — Plural form of henhouse.
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- heroinism — an addiction to heroin
- heronries — Plural form of heronry.
- heronshaw — a heron
- hessonite — essonite.
- higginson — Thomas Wentworth Storrow [stor-oh] /ˈstɒr oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–1911, U.S. clergyman, author, and social reformer.
- himations — Plural form of himation.
- 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.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- historian — an expert in history; authority on history.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hoariness — The characteristic of being hoary.
- hoarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of hoarsen.
- hoarstone — A stone designating the bounds of an estate; a landmark.
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- hoidenish — Alternative form of hoydenish.
- hokeyness — Alternative form of hokiness.
- holinesse — Obsolete spelling of holiness.
- holinshed — Raphael, died c1580, English chronicler.
- holliston — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- holystone — a block of soft sandstone used in scrubbing the decks of a ship.
- home news — news of events in the home country, as opposed to foreign news
- home sign — any idiosyncratic system of gestural communication used by a deaf person.
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homestand — (baseball) A series of games played at a team's home field.
- hometowns — Plural form of hometown.
- homeyness — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
- hominines — Plural form of hominine.
- hominoids — Plural form of hominoid.
- hon. sec. — Honorary Secretary
- honestest — (nonstandard) Superlative form of honest.
- honesties — Plural form of honestie.
- honeworts — Plural form of honewort.
- honeybees — Plural form of honeybee.
- honeydews — Plural form of honeydew.
- honeyless — without any honey
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- honorless — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- honourous — Rare spelling of honorous.
- hoodwinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink.