9-letter words containing n, i, h, o
- smooching — smutch.
- smooshing — to mash or push, especially to push down or in; compress: to smush a pie in someone's face.
- something — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
- songsmith — a writer of songs.
- sophonias — Zephaniah.
- sore shin — a disease of plant seedlings, characterized by stem cankers that girdle the stem near the soil line, caused by any of several fungi, especially Rhizoctonia solani.
- stanchion — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stinkhorn — any of various rank-smelling, brown-capped mushrooms of the genus Phallus, especially P. impudicus.
- stonefish — a tropical scorpion fish, Synanceja verrucosa, having dorsal-fin spines from which a deadly poison is discharged.
- strongish — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- swinehood — the quality or condition of a swine
- switch on — the act or process of switching on an ignition, light, appliance, etc.
- switch-on — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- symphonia — any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.
- symphonic — Music. of, for, pertaining to, or having the character of a symphony or symphony orchestra.
- syphoning — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- tachyonic — characteristic of a tachyon
- technikon — a technical college
- thanatoid — resembling or like death
- the koine — the Ancient Greek dialect that was the lingua franca of the empire of Alexander the Great and was widely used throughout the E Mediterranean area in Roman times
- the union — the United States of America, specif. when regarded as a federal union
- theomania — a delusional mental illness in which a person believes himself or herself to be God or specially chosen by God, as to found a religious order.
- thereinto — into that place or thing.
- thighbone — femur (def 1).
- thin down — become slimmer
- thinghood — the state or condition of being a thing or having existence
- think out — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- thiophene — a water-insoluble, colorless liquid, C 4 H 4 S, resembling benzene, occurring in crude coal-tar benzene: used chiefly as a solvent and in organic synthesis.
- thomasina — a female given name.
- thon buri — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- thorazine — chlorpromazine
- thornbill — any of various South American hummingbirds of the genera Chalcostigma, Ramphomicron, etc, having a thornlike bill
- thornbird — any of various small S American birds of the genus Phacellodomus
- thorndike — Ashley Horace, 1871–1933, U.S. literary historian and teacher.
- thornhill — Sir James. 1675–1734, English baroque painter. He is best known for decorating the Painted Hall, Greenwich Hospital (1708–27) and the interior of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral (1715–17)
- thornlike — resembling or having the characteristics of a thorn
- threnodic — a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song.
- threonine — an essential amino acid, CH 3 CHOHCH(NH 2)COOH, obtained by the hydrolysis of proteins. Symbol: T. Abbreviation: Thr;
- throbbing — to beat with increased force or rapidity, as the heart under the influence of emotion or excitement; palpitate.
- thronging — a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.
- thyroxine — Biochemistry. the thyroid gland hormone that regulates the metabolic rate of the body.
- tisiphone — one of the Furies.
- tocharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
- tokharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
- touchline — any of the outer lines bordering the playing field.
- triathlon — an athletic contest comprising three consecutive events, usually swimming, bicycling, and distance running.
- trihedron — the figure determined by three planes meeting in a point.
- trilithon — a prehistoric structure consisting of two upright stones supporting a horizontal stone.
- trimphone — a phone designed in the 1960s