9-letter words containing o, h, e, n
- hypopnoea — Alternative spelling of hypopnea.
- ichneumon — Also called African mongoose, Egyptian mongoose. a slender, long-tailed mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, inhabiting Africa and southern Europe, and believed by the ancient Egyptians to devour crocodile eggs.
- ideophone — A word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
- idiophone — An instrument the whole of which vibrates to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped, such as a bell, gong, or rattle.
- in a hole — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- in theory — in principle
- inheritor — a person who inherits; heir.
- innholder — innkeeper.
- ionophore — a lipid-soluble substance capable of transporting specific ions through cellular membranes.
- isochrone — a line, as on a map, connecting all points having some property simultaneously, as in having the same delay in receiving a radio signal from a given source or requiring the same time to be reached by available transportation from a given center.
- isohaline — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- johannine — of or relating to the apostle John or to the books in the New Testament attributed to him.
- john held — John, Jr. 1889–1958, U.S. cartoonist, illustrator, and writer.
- josephine — Empress (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
- josephson — Brian David, born 1940, British physicist: Nobel Prize 1973.
- jotunheim — the outer world, or realm of giants; Utgard.
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- khodzhent — a city in N Tajikistan on the Syr Darya.
- kneeholes — Plural form of kneehole.
- knotholes — Plural form of knothole.
- kobenhavn — Danish name of Copenhagen.
- koshering — Present participle of kosher.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- lens hood — an extension piece fixed to a camera lens to shield it from a direct light source
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- limehound — Alternative form of lyam-hound.
- lionheart — a person of exceptional courage and bravery.
- lithopone — a white pigment consisting of zinc sulfide, barium sulfate, and some zinc oxide, used as a pigment and filler in the manufacture of paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powders.
- loathness — Unwillingness; reluctance.
- loch ness — a lake in NW Scotland, near Inverness. 23 miles (37 km) long.
- lohengrin — the son of Parzival, and a knight of the Holy Grail.
- lone hand — Cards. a person who holds a hand so strong that he or she can play a deal without the hand of his or her partner. the hand played by such a person.
- longhouse — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- longshore — existing, found, or employed along the shore, especially at or near a seaport: longshore jobs; longshore current.
- luncheons — Plural form of luncheon.
- mahometan — a name formerly in Western usage but never used among Muslims for the Muslim religion
- mantyhose — a one-piece clinging garment covering the body from the waist to the feet, worn by men
- mash note — an effusive note or letter expressing affection or passion for the recipient, usually a stranger or someone known only casually
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- mechnikov — Ilya Ilyich [ee-lyah ee-lyeech] /iˈlyɑ iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), Metchnikoff, Élie.
- megaphone — a cone-shaped device for magnifying or directing the voice, chiefly used in addressing a large audience out of doors or in calling to someone at a distance. Compare bullhorn.
- menorrhea — menstrual flow.
- mesh knot — sheet bend.
- metaphone — (algorithm, text) An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- methadone — a synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 8 ClNO, similar to morphine but effective orally, used in the relief of pain and as a heroin substitute in the treatment of heroin addiction.
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- mischosen — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mochiness — a fusty, dank, or humid condition