9-letter words containing o, h, e, n
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- 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 By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace.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.
- honorable — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- honorless — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- hooknoses — Plural form of hooknose.
- hoop pine — a fast-growing timber tree of Australia, Araucaria cunninghamii, having rough bark with hoop-like cracks around the trunk and branches: family Araucariaceae
- hoovering — to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
- hoppiness — The state of being hoppy.
- horehound — an Old World plant, Marrubium vulgare, of the mint family, having downy leaves and small, whitish flowers, and containing a bitter, medicinal juice that is used as an expectorant, vermifuge, and laxative.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horniness — consisting of a horn or a hornlike substance; corneous.
- hornpipes — Plural form of hornpipe.
- hornstone — a variety of quartz resembling flint.
- hornyhead — species of fish
- horsemint — a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
- horsepond — A pond for watering horses.
- horsiness — The quality of being, or resembling, a horse.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- hose down — spray sth clean
- hot fence — an electric fence surrounding a farm
- hot money — funds transferred suddenly from one country to another chiefly to avoid depreciation in value or to take advantage of higher interest rates.
- hotelling — (in office management) a practice in which desk space must be booked in advance by an employee as required
- hottentot — Khoikhoi.
- houseline — light cordage used for seizing.
- hovelling — A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two.
- hovhaness — Alan, 1911–2000, U.S. composer.
- how then? — what is the meaning of this?
- hoydenish — a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl; a tomboy.
- hoydenism — The behaviour of a hoyden.
- huey long — Crawford Williamson [wil-yuh m-suh n] /ˈwɪl yəm sən/ (Show IPA), 1815–78, U.S. surgeon.
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- hung over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- huon pine — a coniferous tree, Dacrydium franklinii, of Tasmania, having very small cones and yielding timber.
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- hyalonema — a species of sponge with a long stem made up of long, twisted glass-like fibres
- hydrazone — any of a class of compounds containing the group >C=NNH 2 .
- hydrogens — Plural form of hydrogen.
- hydrovane — a vane on a seaplane conferring stability on water (a sponson) or facilitating take off (a hydrofoil)
- hymnodies — Plural form of hymnody.
- hypernova — (astronomy) The gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole.
- hyperonym — (linguistics) Hypernym; superordinate term.
- hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
- hypnogeny — hypnosis or the induction of a hypnotic state
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotize — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypodense — Less dense (than normal).
- hypogenic — formed beneath the earth's surface, as granite (opposed to epigene).
- hypopneas — Plural form of hypopnea.
- hypopneic — of or relating to hypopnoea