9-letter words containing n, o, h
- hypopneic — of or relating to hypopnoea
- hypopnoea — Alternative spelling of hypopnea.
- hypopyons — Plural form of hypopyon.
- hypotonia — An abnormal loss of muscle tone.
- hypotonic — Physiology. (of tissue) having less than the normal tone.
- hypotonus — Hypotonia.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- ichnology — the branch of paleontology concerned with the study of fossilized tracks, trails, burrows, borings, or other trace fossils as evidence of the occurrence or behavior of the organisms that produced them.
- ideophone — A word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
- idiophone — An instrument the whole of which vibrates to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped, such as a bell, gong, or rattle.
- in a hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- in chorus — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- in theory — in principle
- inchworms — Plural form of inchworm.
- indochina — a peninsula in SE Asia, between the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea, comprising Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, W Malaysia, and Burma (Myanmar).
- ingrowths — Plural form of ingrowth.
- inhabitor — One who inhabits.
- inhalator — an apparatus designed to mix carbon dioxide and oxygen, especially for use in artificial respiration.
- inharmony — Lack of harmony.
- inheritor — a person who inherits; heir.
- inhibitor — a person or thing that inhibits.
- inholding — a tract of land under private ownership within a national park.
- innholder — innkeeper.
- inwrought — worked in or closely combined with something.
- ionophore — a lipid-soluble substance capable of transporting specific ions through cellular membranes.
- iron hand — strict or harsh control: The general governed the country with an iron hand.
- ironsmith — a worker in iron; blacksmith.
- isanthous — having regular flowers.
- isochrone — a line, as on a map, connecting all points having some property simultaneously, as in having the same delay in receiving a radio signal from a given source or requiring the same time to be reached by available transportation from a given center.
- isochrony — the fact or state of occurrence at the same time; contemporaneity.
- isohaline — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- jargonish — jargonistic
- johannine — of or relating to the apostle John or to the books in the New Testament attributed to him.
- john bull — England; the English people.
- john dory — any fish of the family Zeidae, especially Zeus faber, of European seas, having a vertically compressed body and long spines in the dorsal fin.
- john held — John, Jr. 1889–1958, U.S. cartoonist, illustrator, and writer.
- john paul — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- john viii — died a.d. 882, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 872–882.
- john xiii — died a.d. 972, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 965–972.
- john xvii — (Sicco) died 1003, pope 1003.
- john xxii — (Jacques Duèse) c1244–1334, French ecclesiastic: pope 1316–34.
- johnboats — Plural form of johnboat.
- johnstown — a city in SW Pennsylvania: disastrous flood 1889.
- josephine — Empress (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
- josephson — Brian David, born 1940, British physicist: Nobel Prize 1973.
- joshingly — In a joshing manner; teasingly.
- jotunheim — the outer world, or realm of giants; Utgard.
- junk shop — a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
- junk shot — a procedure used for stemming the flow of oil from a leaking well in which debris (such as shredded tyres, golf balls, etc) is pumped into the well at high pressure
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.