9-letter words containing i, n, h
- haycation — A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.
- haymaking — The cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals.
- hazarding — Present participle of hazard.
- head wind — wind blowing head-on
- headiness — intoxicating: a heady wine.
- headlined — Simple past tense and past participle of headline.
- headliner — a performer whose name appears most prominently in a program or advertisement or on a marquee; star.
- headlines — Plural form of headline.
- headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
- healingly — in a healing manner, intended to heal
- heartikin — a term of endearment: 'little heart'
- heartling — a term of endearment, little heart
- heartsink — a patient who repeatedly visits his or her doctor's surgery, often with multiple or non-specific symptoms, and whose complaints are impossible to treat
- heat sink — Thermodynamics. any environment or medium that absorbs heat.
- heaviness — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- heavy ion — the nucleus of a heavy element.
- hebridean — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- hecogenin — a steroid occurring naturally in plants and used in drugs including cortisone
- hectoring — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- hedgingly — So as to hedge; without making a firm commitment.
- hedonists — Plural form of hedonist.
- heediness — heedfulness; attentiveness
- heftiness — The property of being hefty.
- hegemonic — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- heightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heighten.
- heilbronn — a city in N Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- heliborne — transported by helicopter: heliborne troops.
- helicline — a curved ramp.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- heliozoan — a protozoan of the order Heliozoa, having a spherical body and radiating pseudopods.
- hellenism — ancient Greek culture or ideals.
- hellenist — a person, especially in ancient times, adopting Greek speech, ideas, or customs.
- hellenize — to make Greek in character.
- hellinger — Mark, 1903–47, U.S. writer and film producer.
- helmeting — the wearing or provision of a helmet
- helminths — Plural form of helminth.
- helplines — Plural form of helpline.
- helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- helsingør — a port in NE Denmark, in NE Zealand: site of Kronborg Castle (16th century), famous as the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Pop: 35 002 (2004 est)
- helvetian — of or relating to Helvetia or the Helvetii.
- hematinic — a medicine, as a compound of iron, that tends to increase the amount of hematin or hemoglobin in the blood.
- hemingway — Ernest (Miller) 1899–1961, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist: Nobel Prize 1954.
- hemogenia — pseudohemophilia.
- hemogenic — Of, or relating to the production of blood cells.
- hemolysin — a substance, as an antibody, that in cooperation with complement causes dissolution of red blood cells.
- hemotoxin — a toxin, as cobra venom, that causes a hemolytic reaction.
- hen fruit — a hen's egg or eggs.
- hen night — A hen night is a party for a woman who is getting married very soon, to which only women are invited.