9-letter words containing n, i, h, o
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- ichnology — the branch of paleontology concerned with the study of fossilized tracks, trails, burrows, borings, or other trace fossils as evidence of the occurrence or behavior of the organisms that produced them.
- ideophone — A word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
- idiophone — An instrument the whole of which vibrates to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped, such as a bell, gong, or rattle.
- in a hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- in chorus — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- in theory — in principle
- inchworms — Plural form of inchworm.
- indochina — a peninsula in SE Asia, between the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea, comprising Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, W Malaysia, and Burma (Myanmar).
- ingrowths — Plural form of ingrowth.
- inhabitor — One who inhabits.
- inhalator — an apparatus designed to mix carbon dioxide and oxygen, especially for use in artificial respiration.
- inharmony — Lack of harmony.
- inheritor — a person who inherits; heir.
- inhibitor — a person or thing that inhibits.
- inholding — a tract of land under private ownership within a national park.
- innholder — innkeeper.
- inwrought — worked in or closely combined with something.
- ionophore — a lipid-soluble substance capable of transporting specific ions through cellular membranes.
- iron hand — strict or harsh control: The general governed the country with an iron hand.
- ironsmith — a worker in iron; blacksmith.
- isanthous — having regular flowers.
- isochrone — a line, as on a map, connecting all points having some property simultaneously, as in having the same delay in receiving a radio signal from a given source or requiring the same time to be reached by available transportation from a given center.
- isochrony — the fact or state of occurrence at the same time; contemporaneity.
- isohaline — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- jargonish — jargonistic
- johannine — of or relating to the apostle John or to the books in the New Testament attributed to him.
- john viii — died a.d. 882, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 872–882.
- john xiii — died a.d. 972, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 965–972.
- john xvii — (Sicco) died 1003, pope 1003.
- john xxii — (Jacques Duèse) c1244–1334, French ecclesiastic: pope 1316–34.
- josephine — Empress (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
- joshingly — In a joshing manner; teasingly.
- jotunheim — the outer world, or realm of giants; Utgard.
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- king horn — the earliest extant verse romance (late 13th century) in the English language.
- king john — a drama (1596–97?) by Shakespeare.
- kiungchow — Qiongzhou.
- kniphofia — Any of several plants, of the genus Kniphofia, having bright, upright flowers.
- kórinthos — an ancient city in Greece, on the Isthmus of Corinth: one of the wealthiest and most powerful of the ancient Greek cities.
- koshering — Present participle of kosher.
- kuniyoshi — Yasuo [yah-soo-aw] /yɑˈsu ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1953, U.S. painter, born in Japan.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- lindy hop — Also called lindy hop, Lindy Hop. an energetic jitterbug dance.
- lionheart — a person of exceptional courage and bravery.
- lithopone — a white pigment consisting of zinc sulfide, barium sulfate, and some zinc oxide, used as a pigment and filler in the manufacture of paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powders.
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- loathings — Plural form of loathing.