9-letter words containing n, o, h
- haycation — A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.
- head tone — (in singing) a vocal tone so produced as to bring the cavities of the nose and head into sympathetic vibration.
- headcanon — (fandom slang) Elements and interpretations of a fictional universe accepted by an individual fan, but not found within or supported by the official canon.
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- headnotes — Plural form of headnote.
- headphone — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- headstone — a stone marker set at the head of a grave; gravestone.
- heat-moon — William Least [leest] /list/ (Show IPA), (William Trogden) born 1939, U.S. writer.
- 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.
- heel bone — calcaneus.
- 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.
- helgoland — a German island in the North Sea. ¼ sq. mi. (0.6 sq. km).
- 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.
- hellbound — Bound for Hell; damned.
- hellhound — a mythical watchdog of hell.
- 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.
- hen-house — a shelter for poultry.
- henderson — Arthur, 1863–1935, British statesman and labor leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1934.
- henhouses — Plural form of henhouse.
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- heptanone — any of three isomeric ketones, C 11 H 14 O, derived from heptane.
- 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.
- heronshaw — a heron
- hessonite — essonite.
- heteronym — a word spelled the same as another but having a different sound and meaning, as lead (to conduct) and lead (a metal).
- hexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- hexameron — hexaemeron.
- hexathlon — an athletic contest consisting of six different events
- 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.
- hindooism — the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.