9-letter words containing n, o, h
- hometowns — Plural form of hometown.
- homeyness — comfortably informal and inviting; cozy; homelike: a homey little inn.
- hominines — Plural form of hominine.
- hominoids — Plural form of hominoid.
- homogenic — having only one alternative form, or one allele, of a gene or genes: The plagues attacked relatively homogenic populations.
- homonymic — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air; a homophone (def 1).
- homophone — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
- homophony — the quality or state of being homophonic.
- homotonic — of the same tone
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- hon. sec. — Honorary Secretary
- honestest — (nonstandard) Superlative form of honest.
- honesties — Plural form of honestie.
- honeworts — Plural form of honewort.
- honey ant — any of several ants, especially of the genus Myrmecocystus, that feed on honeydew or nectar and store the excess juices in the bodies of certain worker ants.
- honey bun — Also called sticky bun. a sweet spiral-shaped bun, usually with cinnamon, raisins, and nuts, coated with honey or butter and brown sugar.
- honey pot — any of a caste of workers in certain species of ants, that serve as living storehouses for a honeylike material later used by the whole colony
- honey-bee — any bee that collects and stores honey, especially Apis mellifera.
- honeybees — Plural form of honeybee.
- honeybird — Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.
- honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
- honeycomb — a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
- honeydews — Plural form of honeydew.
- honeyless — without any honey
- honeylike — Like honey in taste, texture, or appearance.
- honeymoon — a vacation or trip taken by a newly married couple.
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- honeywell — (company) A US company known for its mainframes and operating systems. The company's history is long and tortuous, with many mergers, acquisitions and name changes. A company formed on 1886-04-23 to make furnace regulators eventually merged in 1927 with another company formed in 1904 by a young plumbing and heating engineer named Mark Honeywell who was perfecting the heat generator. A 1955 joint venture with Raytheon Corp., called Datamatic Corporation, marked Honeywell's entry into the computer business. Their first computer was the D-1000. In 1960 Honeywell bought out Raytheon's interest and the name changed to Electronic Data Processing (EDP) then in 1963 it was officially renamed Honeywell Inc. In 1970 Honeywell merged its computer business with General Electric's to form Honeywell Information Systems. In 1986 a joint venture with the french company Bull and japanese NEC Corporation created Honeywell Bull. By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace. See also: brain-damaged.
- honeywort — a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
- hong kong — a British crown colony comprising Hong Kong island (29 sq. mi.; 75 sq. km), Kowloon peninsula, nearby islands, and the adjacent mainland in SE China (New Territories) reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. 404 sq. mi. (1046 sq. km). Capital: Victoria.
- honkytonk — Alternative spelling of honky-tonk.
- honorable — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- honoraria — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
- honorific — Also, honorifical. doing or conferring honor.
- honorless — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- honourary — Misspelling of honorary.
- honouring — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- honourous — Rare spelling of honorous.
- hoochinoo — a type of distilled liquor made by Alaskan Indians.
- hoodooing — voodoo.
- hoodwinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink.
- hoofbound — (of horses and other hoofed animals) having the heels of the hoofs dry and contracted, causing lameness.
- hoofprint — the impression made by an animal's hoof.
- hooknoses — Plural form of hooknose.
- hoolachan — a Highland reel
- hooligans — Plural form of hooligan.
- hoop iron — iron in the form of thin strips for bonding masonry, holding barrels together, etc.
- hoop pine — a fast-growing timber tree of Australia, Araucaria cunninghamii, having rough bark with hoop-like cracks around the trunk and branches: family Araucariaceae