9-letter words containing h, o, r, n, e
- northlake — a city in NE Illinois: suburb of Chicago.
- northside — The northern side of a building, street, area etc.
- northwest — a point on the compass midway between north and west. Abbreviation: NW.
- nourished — Simple past tense and past participle of nourish.
- nourisher — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- nourishes — Plural form of nourish.
- nowhither — to no place; nowhere: paths leading nowhither.
- oenothera — any plant of the large taxonomically complicated American genus Oenothera, typically having yellow flowers that open in the evening: family Onagraceae
- on shares — with each person concerned taking a share of the profit or loss
- one-horse — using or having only a single horse: a one-horse carriage.
- ornithine — an amino acid, H 2 N(CH 2) 3 CH(NH 2)COOH, obtained by the hydrolysis of arginine and occurring as an intermediate compound in the urea cycle of mammals.
- orphanage — an institution for the housing and care of orphans.
- orthopnea — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- orthotone — (of a word) having an independent accent
- other man — a man who is romantically or sexually involved with another man's wife or lover, especially a man who is having an affair with a married woman.
- otherness — the state or fact of being different or distinct.
- overhuman — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- overnight — for or during the night: to stay overnight.
- overshine — to outshine: One star seemed to overshine all others.
- overthink — If you overthink, or if you overthink a problem, you spend too much time thinking about something.
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- parhelion — a bright circular spot on a solar halo; a mock sun: usually one of two or more such spots seen on opposite sides of the sun, and often accompanied by additional luminous arcs and bands.
- parthenon — the temple of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis at Athens, completed c438 b.c. by Ictinus and Callicrates and decorated by Phidias: regarded as the finest Doric temple.
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- penholder — a holder in which a penpoint is placed.
- percheron — one of a French breed of draft horses, having a gray or black coat.
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- pheromone — any chemical substance released by an animal that serves to influence the physiology or behavior of other members of the same species.
- phonecard — calling card (def 3).
- phonopore — a device that conveys sound using electrical impulses along telegraph lines
- phronesis — wisdom in determining ends and the means of attaining them.
- pinhooker — someone who trades in young racehorses for profit
- pothering — commotion; uproar.
- pothunter — a person who hunts for food or profit, ignoring the rules of sport.
- prechosen — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- prehensor — a part that grasps
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- pyrophone — an instrument resembling a small pipe organ, designed to produce musical sounds using gas flames burning close together in glass tubes, and producing a sound when the flames are separated by the pressing of a key. Designed by G.F.E. Kastner in 1869
- re-homing — the act of re-homing an animal
- reblochon — a soft French cheese
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- renourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- rethondes — a village in N France near Compiègne: armistice ending World War I signed here 1918.
- rheingold — See The Ring of the Nibelung.
- rhigolene — a petroleum distillate intermediate between cymogene and gasoline, formerly used to produce local anesthesia by freezing.
- rhodamine — a red dye obtained by heating an alkyl aminophenol with phthalic anhydride.
- rhodanate — a salt of thiocyanic acid
- rhodanize — to plate with rhodium
- rhodesian — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- rhodonite — a mineral, manganese metasilicate, MnSiO 3 , occurring usually in rose-red masses, sometimes used as an ornamental stone; manganese spar.