9-letter words containing n, i, h, o
- hailstone — a pellet of hail.
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- hallooing — Present participle of halloo.
- hallowing — to make holy; sanctify; consecrate.
- halobiont — an organism that thrives in a saline environment.
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- hamiltons — Plural form of hamilton.
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- harrovian — of or relating to Harrow.
- harrowing — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- hatinator — a small decorative hat, worn on social occasions
- haycation — A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.
- heavy ion — the nucleus of a heavy element.
- 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.
- hedonists — Plural form of hedonist.
- hegemonic — having hegemony, or dominance: the ruling party's hegemonic control of all facets of society.
- heilbronn — a city in N Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- heliborne — transported by helicopter: heliborne troops.
- 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.
- helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- 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.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- heroinism — an addiction to heroin
- heronries — Plural form of heronry.
- hessonite — essonite.
- hick town — an insulting way of referring to a small town in the countryside that is not deemed to be very sophisticated
- hidebound — narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant.
- hieromonk — a monk who is also a priest.
- higginson — Thomas Wentworth Storrow [stor-oh] /ˈstɒr oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–1911, U.S. clergyman, author, and social reformer.
- high noon — the exact moment of noon.
- high-tone — having high principles; dignified.
- himations — Plural form of himation.