9-letter words containing o, a, t, e
- hacqueton — an upholstered garment for the upper body worn under chain mail or such a garment covered with chain mail
- haematoid — resembling blood
- haematoma — Alternative form of hematoma.
- haemocyte — Alternative spelling of hemocyte.
- haemostat — A clamp used in surgery to close the severed end of a blood vessel to stop bleeding.
- hailstone — a pellet of hail.
- half note — a note equivalent in time value to one half of a whole note; minim.
- half tone — semitone.
- half-note — a note equivalent in time value to one half of a whole note; minim.
- halftones — Plural form of halftone.
- halogeton — a poisonous herbaceous plant, native to Siberia, that grows in North America
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- halothane — a colorless liquid, C 2 HBrClF 3 , used as an inhalant for general anesthesia.
- hammertoe — a clawlike deformity of a toe, usually the second or third, in which there is a permanent flexion of the second and third joints.
- handtowel — a small piece of thick soft cloth used to dry the hands
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- hansetown — Hansa (def 3).
- haplotype — Genetics. a combination of closely linked DNA sequences on one chromosome that are often inherited together: By comparing haplotypes of a mother and father with those of a fetus, scientists can study how new genetic changes arise.
- happen to — chance to
- haptonema — In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
- hariolate — to practise divination or to prophesy
- harmonite — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmotome — a zeolite mineral related to stilbite, occurring in twinned crystals.
- harrogate — a town in N England, in North Yorkshire: a former spa, now a centre for tourism and conferences. Pop: 70 811 (2001 est)
- have-nots — people who are very poor
- hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- head tone — (in singing) a vocal tone so produced as to bring the cavities of the nose and head into sympathetic vibration.
- headcloth — any cloth for covering the head, as a turban or wimple.
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- headnotes — Plural form of headnote.
- headshots — Plural form of headshot.
- headstock — the part of a machine containing or directly supporting the moving or working parts, as the assembly supporting and driving the live spindle in a lathe.
- headstone — a stone marker set at the head of a grave; gravestone.
- heartsome — giving cheer, spirit, or courage: a heartsome wine.
- heartsore — heartsick.
- heartwood — the hard central wood of the trunk of an exogenous tree; duramen.
- heartworm — a parasitic nematode, Dirofilaria immitis, transmitted by mosquito and invading the heart and pulmonary arteries of dogs, wolves, and foxes throughout its range in tropical, subtropical and, more recently, temperate regions around the world.
- heat loss — the loss of heat from something such as a building
- heat-moon — William Least [leest] /list/ (Show IPA), (William Trogden) born 1939, U.S. writer.
- heatproof — not affected or damaged by heat, especially when placed in an oven or over a direct flame: heatproof cookware.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- hectogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- hektogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- heliostat — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
- hematomas — (US) Plural form of hematoma (Alternative spelling of haematomas).
- hematosis — hematopoiesis.
- hematozoa — Plural form of hematozoon.
- hemoblast — hematoblast.
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.