9-letter words containing n, o, h
- down-home — of, relating to, or exhibiting the simple, familiar, or folksy qualities associated with one's family or with rural areas, especially of the southern U.S.: down-home cooking; down-home hospitality.
- downlight — a lamp, often a light bulb set in a metal cylinder, mounted on or recessed into the ceiling so that a beam of light is directed downward.
- downright — thorough; absolute; out-and-out: a downright falsehood.
- downshift — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- downthrow — a throwing down or being thrown down; overthrow.
- downweigh — (transitive) To weigh or press down; depress; cause to sink or prevent from rising.
- draghound — a hound for use in following a hunting drag, specifically bred for speed and stamina rather than subtlety of sense of smell.
- dragonish — Having the characteristics of a dragon.
- dronishly — in a droning manner
- duathlons — Plural form of duathlon.
- dunk shot — a shot in which a player near the basket jumps with the ball and thrusts it through the basket with one hand or both hands held above the rim. See also slam dunk (def 1).
- dynorphin — (biochemistry) Any of a class of opioid peptides that arise from the precursor protein prodynorphin.
- dysphonia — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
- dysphonic — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
- earphones — (countable) Plural form of earphone.
- earthborn — born on or sprung from the earth; of earthly origin.
- echeloned — Simple past tense and past participle of echelon.
- echinoids — Plural form of echinoid.
- echogenic — capable of generating or reflecting sound waves.
- echoingly — In an echoing way.
- ecphoneme — (obsolete) A symbol, !, comprising a vertical line and a dot below, signifying the end of a sentence that is an exclamation.
- eindhoven — a city in the SE Netherlands, in North Brabant province: radio and electrical industry. Pop: 206 000 (2003 est)
- einthoven — Willem. 1860–1927, Dutch physiologist. A pioneer of electrocardiography, he was awarded the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1924
- elkhounds — Plural form of elkhound.
- encheason — a reason
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- end house — the last house in a row, terrace, or street, from the viewpoint of the speaker
- endolymph — The fluid in the membranous labyrinth of the ear.
- endomorph — A person with a soft round body build and a high proportion of fat tissue.
- endophagy — cannibalism within the same group or tribe
- endophyte — A plant, especially a fungus, that lives inside another plant.
- endorheic — (of a lake or basin) Internally drained; having no outlet.
- endorphin — Any of a group of hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system and having a number of physiological functions. They are peptides that activate the body’s opiate receptors, causing an analgesic effect.
- endotherm — An animal that is dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat; a warm-blooded animal.
- enshrouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enshroud.
- entheogen — A chemical substance, typically of plant origin, that is ingested to produce a nonordinary state of consciousness for religious or spiritual purposes.
- enthroned — Formally placed in a position.
- entophyte — endophyte
- enwrought — (archaic) Made from (a material).
- ephemeron — An insect that lives only for a day or a few days.
- ethanoate — (organic compound) The acetate anion [C2H3O2]\u2212, a carboxylate and the conjugate base of ethanoic acid (acetic acid).
- ethionine — a type of amino acid that is the biological antagonist of methionine
- ethiopian — person from Ethiopia
- ethnocide — The deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group.
- ethnogeny — the branch of ethnology that deals with the origin of races or peoples
- ethnolect — A language variety specific to an ethnic group.
- ethnology — The study of the characteristics of various peoples and the differences and relationships between them.
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- eunuchoid — Resembling a eunuch, typically in having reduced or indeterminate sexual characteristics.
- euphonies — Plural form of euphony.