9-letter words containing i, s, n, a
- handrails — Plural form of handrail.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- hangnails — Plural form of hangnail.
- hanseatic — of or relating to the Hanseatic League or to any of the towns belonging to it.
- happiness — the quality or state of being happy.
- harassing — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- 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.
- hardiness — the capacity for enduring or sustaining hardship, privation, etc.; capability of surviving under unfavorable conditions.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- 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.
- harridans — Plural form of harridan.
- 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.
- hauntings — Plural form of haunting.
- 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.
- headiness — intoxicating: a heady wine.
- headlines — Plural form of headline.
- headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
- 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.
- hendiadys — a figure in which a complex idea is expressed by two words connected by a copulative conjunction: “to look with eyes and envy” instead of “with envious eyes.”.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- hesitance — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- highlands — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
- highstand — (geology) An interval during which the sea level was above the edge of a continental shelf.
- himations — Plural form of himation.
- hindshank — the meat from an animal's hind leg
- hindustan — Persian name of India, especially the part N of the Deccan.
- hispanism — a movement in Latin America for the promotion of Spanish or of native culture and influence. Compare hispanidad.
- hispanist — a specialist in the Spanish or Portuguese language or in Spanish or Latin-American literature or culture.
- histamine — Biochemistry, Physiology. a heterocyclic amine, C 5 H 9 N 3 , released by mast cells when tissue is injured or in allergic and inflammatory reactions, causing dilation of small blood vessels and smooth muscle contraction.
- historian — an expert in history; authority on history.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hoariness — The characteristic of being hoary.
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- hooligans — Plural form of hooligan.
- horntails — Plural form of horntail.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- hostaging — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.