9-letter words containing i, n, h
- hanefiyeh — (in the courtyard of a mosque) a fountain for ritual washing.
- hang fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- hang five — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hang time — the length of time that a football remains in the air after being kicked.
- hang with — to frequent the company of (someone)
- hangaring — a shed or shelter.
- hangnails — Plural form of hangnail.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- hanseatic — of or relating to the Hanseatic League or to any of the towns belonging to it.
- hanukkiah — (Judaism) A nine-branched menorah used during Hanukkah.
- haplontic — (chiefly of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form is haploid, with a diploid zygote being formed only briefly.
- happening — something that happens; occurrence; event.
- happiness — the quality or state of being happy.
- harassing — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- harboring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard link — (file system) One of several directory entries which refer to the same Unix file. A hard link is created with the "ln" (link) command: ln
where and are pathnames within the same file system. Hard links to the same file are indistinguishable from each other except that they have different pathnames. They all refer to the same inode and the inode contains all the information about a file. The standard ln command does not usually allow you to create a hard link to a directory, chiefly because the standard rm and rmdir commands do not allow you to delete such a link. Some systems provide link and unlink commands which give direct access to the system calls of the same name, for which no such restrictions apply. Normally all hard links to a file must be in the same file system because a directory entry just relates a pathname to an inode within the same file system. The only exception is a mount point. The restrictions on hard links to directories and between file systems are very common but are not mandated by POSIX. Symbolic links are often used instead of hard links because they do not suffer from these restrictions. The space associated with a file is not freed until all the hard links to the file are deleted. This explains why the system call to delete a file is called "unlink". - hard sign — the Cyrillic letter Ъ, ъ as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is not palatalized: not in official use since 1918.
- hard-line — adhering rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan; uncompromising or unyielding: hard-line union demands.
- hardening — a material that hardens another, as an alloy added to iron to make steel.
- hardiment — hardihood.
- hardiness — the capacity for enduring or sustaining hardship, privation, etc.; capability of surviving under unfavorable conditions.
- hardliner — Alternative spelling of hard-liner.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- harkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- harlequin — (often initial capital letter) a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.
- harlingen — a city in S Texas.
- harmaline — a chemical derived from the harmala plant, used as a hallucinogen or used in conjunction with other hallucinogens
- harmdoing — the doing of harm
- harmonica — Also called mouth organ. a musical wind instrument consisting of a small rectangular case containing a set of metal reeds connected to a row of holes, over which the player places the mouth and exhales and inhales to produce the tones.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- harmonies — Plural form of harmony.
- harmonise — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmonist — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmonite — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmonium — an organlike keyboard instrument with small metal reeds and a pair of bellows operated by the player's feet.
- harmonize — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harridans — Plural form of harridan.
- harrovian — of or relating to Harrow.
- harrowing — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- hassan ii — 1929–1999, king of Morocco 1961–99.
- hastening — to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
- hastiness — moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.
- hatchings — Plural form of hatching.
- hatchling — a young bird, reptile, or fish recently emerged from an egg.
- hatinator — a small decorative hat, worn on social occasions
- hauntings — Plural form of haunting.
- haut-rhin — a department in NE France. 1354 sq. mi. (3505 sq. km). Capital: Colmar.
- haversian — designating or of the canals through which blood vessels and connective tissue pass in bone
- haversine — one half the versed sine of a given angle or arc.