9-letter words containing n, a, s
- haussmann — Georges Eugène [zhawrzh œ-zhen] /ʒɔrʒ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1809–91, French administrator who improved the landscaping, street designs, and utilities systems of Paris.
- have-nots — people who are very poor
- 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.
- hawthorns — Plural form of hawthorn.
- hazelnuts — Plural form of hazelnut.
- headbands — Plural form of headband.
- headiness — intoxicating: a heady wine.
- headlands — Plural form of headland.
- headlines — Plural form of headline.
- headnotes — Plural form of headnote.
- headstand — an act or instance of supporting the body in a vertical position by balancing on the head usually with the aid of the hands.
- headstone — a stone marker set at the head of a grave; gravestone.
- 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.
- hellspawn — (fantasy) A creature or creatures from Hell.
- 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.”.
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- heronshaw — a heron
- hesitance — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- hesternal — (rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
- 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.
- hoarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of hoarsen.
- hoarstone — A stone designating the bounds of an estate; a landmark.
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homestand — (baseball) A series of games played at a team's home field.
- hooligans — Plural form of hooligan.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- 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.
- hot pants — (used with a plural verb) very brief and usually tight-fitting shorts for women and girls, first popularized in the early 1970s.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- hovhaness — Alan, 1911–2000, U.S. composer.