9-letter words containing n, o, h
- hip joint — a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the innominate bone.
- hipped on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
- hipped-on — greatly interested or preoccupied, almost to an irrational extent; obsessed (usually followed by on): He's hipped on learning to play the tuba.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- historian — an expert in history; authority on history.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hoarhound — an Old World plant, Marrubium vulgare, of the mint family, having downy leaves and small, whitish flowers, and containing a bitter, medicinal juice that is used as an expectorant, vermifuge, and laxative.
- hoariness — The characteristic of being hoary.
- hoarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of hoarsen.
- hoarstone — A stone designating the bounds of an estate; a landmark.
- hoatching — infested; swarming
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- hobgoblin — something causing superstitious fear; a bogy.
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- hobnobbed — Simple past tense and past participle of hobnob.
- hobnobber — One who hobnobs.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- hodmandod — (obsolete) A snail.
- hog latin — pig Latin.
- hohenlohe — a member of a German princely family, fl. 12th to 19th centuries.
- hoidenish — Alternative form of hoydenish.
- hojillion — (slang, hyperbole, rare) An unspecified large number (of).
- hokeyness — Alternative form of hokiness.
- hol-unity — A verification tool for UNITY? Version 2.1. E-mail: Flemming Andersen <[email protected]>?
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- hold down — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- holderlin — Johann Christian Friedrich [yoh-hahn kris-tee-ahn free-drikh] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1770–1843, German poet.
- holinesse — Obsolete spelling of holiness.
- holinshed — Raphael, died c1580, English chronicler.
- hollander — John, 1929–2013, U.S. poet and critic.
- hollandia — former name of Jayapura.
- hollering — to cry aloud; shout; yell: Quit hollering into the phone.
- holliston — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- hollowing — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- holoclone — (biology) A colony-forming stem cell that has a higher growth potential than a meroclone because it does not contain differentiated cells.
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
- hologynic — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in females (opposed to holandric).
- holy land — Palestine (def 1).
- holystone — a block of soft sandstone used in scrubbing the decks of a ship.
- home news — news of events in the home country, as opposed to foreign news
- home sign — any idiosyncratic system of gestural communication used by a deaf person.
- home town — town or city where one grew up
- home unit — a self-contained residence which is part of a series of similar residences
- homebound — confined to one's home, especially because of illness.
- homefront — Alternative form of home front.
- homegoing — A voyage home.
- homegrown — grown or produced at home or in a particular region for local consumption: homegrown tomatoes.
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homeowner — a person who owns a home.
- homestand — (baseball) A series of games played at a team's home field.