9-letter words containing n, o, h
- handlooms — Plural form of handloom.
- handovers — Plural form of handover.
- handphone — A cordless or cellular phone.
- hands off — of, belonging to, using, or used by the hand.
- hands-off — characterized by nonintervention or noninterference: the new hands-off foreign policy.
- handsomer — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handsomes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of handsome.
- handtowel — a small piece of thick soft cloth used to dry the hands
- handwoven — made on a handloom; handloomed.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hang over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hanger-on — a person who remains in a place or attaches himself or herself to a group, another person, etc., although not wanted, especially in the hope or expectation of personal gain.
- hangerson — a person who remains in a place or attaches himself or herself to a group, another person, etc., although not wanted, especially in the hope or expectation of personal gain.
- hangovers — Plural form of hangover.
- hansetown — Hansa (def 3).
- 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.
- happen on — to take place; come to pass; occur: Something interesting is always happening in New York.
- happen to — chance to
- happen-so — chance; happenstance; accident: Meeting you today was pure happen-so.
- haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
- 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.
- hard loan — a foreign loan which is to be paid back in an agreed currency which has stability and economic strength
- hard porn — hard-core pornography.
- hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- hardnosed — Describing a person who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
- 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.
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
- harpooner — a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
- harrovian — of or relating to Harrow.
- harrowing — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- hartshorn — the antler of a hart, formerly used as a source of ammonia.
- hashbrown — Alternative spelling of hash brown.
- hasmonean — a member of a priestly family of Jewish rulers and leaders in Judea in the 1st and 2nd centuries b.c.
- hatinator — a small decorative hat, worn on social occasions
- have done — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- have-nots — people who are very poor
- hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- hawthorns — Plural form of hawthorn.
- hawthorny — resembling or characterized by hawthorns