9-letter words containing h, o, s, i, e
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- hosepipes — Plural form of hosepipe.
- hospitage — the position of being a guest
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitate — (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
- hostilely — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- hot issue — a hot issue is a shares issue which sells at more than the public offer price on the first day of trading
- hoteliers — Plural form of hotelier.
- house-sit — to take care of a house or residence while the owner or occupant is temporarily away, especially by living in it.
- housegirl — A young woman employed to do housework.
- houseline — light cordage used for seizing.
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- housewife — Sometimes Offensive. a married woman who manages her own household, especially as her principal occupation.
- housewive — (transitive) To manage with skill and economy.
- howitzers — Plural form of howitzer.
- hoydenish — a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
- hoydenism — The behaviour of a hoyden.
- hymnodies — Plural form of hymnody.
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hysteroid — resembling hysteria.
- ice house — a building for storing ice.
- icehouses — Plural form of icehouse.
- isherwood — Christopher (William Bradshaw) [brad-shaw] /ˈbræd ʃɔ/ (Show IPA), 1904–86, English poet, novelist, and playwright; in the U.S. since 1938.
- isocheims — Plural form of isocheim.
- 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.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
- isotheres — Plural form of isothere.
- isotherms — Plural form of isotherm.
- jailhouse — a jail or building used as a jail.
- jockeyish — resembling a jockey
- jokesmith — (jocular) A person who devises jokes.
- joseph ii — 1741–90, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1765–90 (son of Francis I; brother of Leopold II and Marie Antoinette).
- josephine — Empress (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
- koshering — Present participle of kosher.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- lightsome — emitting or reflecting light; luminous.
- limehouse — a dock district in the East End of London, England, once notorious for its squalor: formerly a Chinese quarter.
- lithesome — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- lithosere — a sere originating on rock.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- methodism — the doctrines, polity, beliefs, and methods of worship of the Methodists.
- methodist — a member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of the revival of religion led by John Wesley: stresses both personal and social morality and has an Arminian doctrine and, in the U.S., a modified episcopal polity.
- methodius — Saint (Apostle of the Slavs) a.d. c825–885, Greek missionary in Moravia (brother of Saint Cyril).
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- millhouse — a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.