9-letter words containing o, h, e, n
- 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.
- euphonism — the use of pleasant-sounding words or phrases
- euphonium — A valved brass musical instrument resembling a small tuba of tenor pitch, played mainly in military and brass bands.
- euphonize — (transitive) To make euphonic.
- euphonous — Alternative form of euphonious.
- ex nihilo — out of nothing
- exhorting — Present participle of exhort.
- fashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of fashion.
- fashioner — a person who fashions, forms, or gives shape to anything.
- firethorn — any of several evergreen, thorny Asian shrubs belonging to the genus Pyracantha, of the rose family, many species of which are cultivated for their foliage and ornamental fruits.
- fishbones — Plural form of fishbone.
- forehands — Plural form of forehand.
- forenight — (Scotland) The evening, between twilight and bedtime.
- foreshank — Anatomy. the part of the lower limb in humans between the knee and the ankle; leg.
- forethink — to have prescience of
- forfochen — exhausted
- fun house — (in an amusement park) a building that is specially constructed and has devices for surprising and amusing patrons walking through.
- gazehound — one of any of several breeds of hounds, as the Afghan, borzoi, greyhound, Saluki, or whippet, that hunts by sighting the game rather than by scent.
- genophobe — A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.
- geophones — Plural form of geophone.
- ghost net — a commercial fishing net that has been abandoned and then accidentally entangles and kills marine life.
- gonophore — an asexually produced bud in hydrozoans that gives rise to the equivalent of a medusa.
- gonorrhea — a contagious, purulent inflammation of the urethra or the vagina, caused by the gonococcus.
- gonotheca — the part of the perisarc covering a gonangium.
- gophering — any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- gorehound — an enthusiast of gory horror films
- greenhorn — an untrained or inexperienced person.
- greenough — Horatio, 1805–52, U.S. sculptor.
- greenshoe — (finance) An option that allows underwriters to short-sell shares in a registered securities offering at the offering price.