9-letter words containing n, o, w, h
- home town — town or city where one grew up
- homegrown — grown or produced at home or in a particular region for local consumption: homegrown tomatoes.
- homeowner — a person who owns a home.
- hometowns — Plural form of hometown.
- honeworts — Plural form of honewort.
- honeydews — Plural form of honeydew.
- 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 By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace.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.
- hoodwinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink.
- hornworms — Plural form of hornworm.
- hornworts — Plural form of hornwort.
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- hornywink — a lapwing
- hose down — spray sth clean
- 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
- hull down — the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship, floating partially submerged and supporting the remainder of the ship.
- hunt down — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
- inchworms — Plural form of inchworm.
- ingrowths — Plural form of ingrowth.
- inwrought — worked in or closely combined with something.
- johnstown — a city in SW Pennsylvania: disastrous flood 1889.
- kiungchow — Qiongzhou.
- know-hows — knowledge of how to do something; faculty or skill for a particular activity; expertise: Designing a computer requires a lot of know-how.
- kwangchow — Older Spelling. Canton.
- longworth — Alice Lee Roosevelt ("Princess Alice") 1884–1980, U.S. socialite: daughter of Theodore Roosevelt.
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- monowheel — A vehicle similar to a unicycle, its rider sitting within or adjacent to the single wheel.
- narrowish — somewhat narrow
- net worth — net assets.
- newshound — A newspaper reporter.
- night owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- night-owl — a person who often stays up late at night; nighthawk.
- nightglow — a dim light from the upper atmosphere caused by emissions from atoms and molecules ionized by solar radiation: observed at night (nightglow) during the day (dayglow) and at twilight (twilight glow) with each having slightly different characteristics.
- nightgown — a loose gown, worn in bed by women or children.
- no-growth — failing to or unlikely to grow; showing a lack of progress or development: a no-growth industry.
- non-white — a sociocultural classification of modern humans with darker pigmentation of the skin than is characteristic in people of European descent.
- nongrowth — the failure to grow
- nonwhites — Plural form of nonwhite.
- northward — Also, northwards, northwardly. toward the north.
- northwest — a point on the compass midway between north and west. Abbreviation: NW.
- northwich — a town in NW England, in Cheshire: salt and chemical industries. Pop: 39 568 (2001)
- nosewheel — the landing wheel under the nose of an aircraft.
- nowhither — to no place; nowhere: paths leading nowhither.
- oakenshaw — an area of woodland containing oak trees
- on wheels — Something on wheels has wheels attached to the bottom, so that it can be moved easily.
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- pawn shop — shop that makes loans on personal property