9-letter words containing n, o, h
- hooraying — Present participle of hooray.
- hoovering — to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
- hopatcong — a town in N New Jersey.
- hopkinson — Francis, 1737–91, American statesman and satirist.
- hoppiness — The state of being hoppy.
- horehound — 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.
- horizonal — relating to the horizon
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- hornbills — Plural form of hornbill.
- hornbooks — Plural form of hornbook.
- horniness — consisting of a horn or a hornlike substance; corneous.
- hornpipes — Plural form of hornpipe.
- hornpouts — Plural form of hornpout.
- hornstone — a variety of quartz resembling flint.
- horntails — Plural form of horntail.
- hornworms — Plural form of hornworm.
- hornworts — Plural form of hornwort.
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- hornyhead — species of fish
- hornywink — a lapwing
- horsemint — a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
- horsepond — A pond for watering horses.
- horsiness — The quality of being, or resembling, a horse.
- hortation — The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- hose down — spray sth clean
- hostaging — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- hot fence — an electric fence surrounding a farm
- hot money — funds transferred suddenly from one country to another chiefly to avoid depreciation in value or to take advantage of higher interest rates.
- hot pants — (used with a plural verb) very brief and usually tight-fitting shorts for women and girls, first popularized in the early 1970s.
- hotelling — (in office management) a practice in which desk space must be booked in advance by an employee as required
- hottentot — Khoikhoi.
- hound dog — Chiefly Southern U.S. Dialect. hound1 (def 1).
- houndfish — Tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae.
- hounskull — a snoutlike, usually conical, visor attached to a basinet of the 14th century.
- hour hand — the hand that indicates the hours on a clock or watch.
- houseline — light cordage used for seizing.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- houyhnhnm — (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of horses endowed with reason, who rule the Yahoos, a race of degraded, brutish creatures having human form.
- hovelling — A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.
- hovhaness — Alan, 1911–2000, U.S. composer.
- how then? — what is the meaning of this?
- howl down — to utter a loud, prolonged, mournful cry, as that of a dog or wolf.
- howlingly — producing or uttering a howling noise: a howling mob.
- howlround — the condition, resulting in a howling noise, when sound from a loudspeaker is fed back into the microphone of a public-address or recording system
- hoydenish — a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
- hoydenism — The behaviour of a hoyden.
- hu jintao — born 1942, Chinese Communist statesman; president of China (2003–2013)
- huey long — Crawford Williamson [wil-yuh m-suh n] /ˈwɪl yəm sən/ (Show IPA), 1815–78, U.S. surgeon.
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.