9-letter words containing o, n, e, h, r
- dear john — a letter from a woman informing her boyfriend or fiancé that she is ending their relationship or informing her husband that she wants a divorce: Nothing is worse for a soldier's morale than getting a Dear John.
- deerhound — a very large rough-coated breed of dog of the greyhound type
- dehorning — Present participle of dehorn.
- dethroned — Simple past tense and past participle of dethrone.
- dethroner — One who dethrones.
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- dinothere — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- earphones — (countable) Plural form of earphone.
- earthborn — born on or sprung from the earth; of earthly origin.
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- endomorph — A person with a soft round body build and a high proportion of fat tissue.
- 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.
- enthroned — Formally placed in a position.
- enwrought — (archaic) Made from (a material).
- ephemeron — An insect that lives only for a day or a few days.
- exhorting — Present participle of exhort.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- grewhound — a greyhound
- greyhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.
- habergeon — a short, sleeveless coat of mail.
- hand over — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handovers — Plural form of handover.
- handsomer — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- hang over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hanger-on — a person who remains in a place or attaches himself or herself to a group, another person, etc., although not wanted, especially in the hope or expectation of personal gain.
- hangerson — a person who remains in a place or attaches himself or herself to a group, another person, etc., although not wanted, especially in the hope or expectation of personal gain.
- hangovers — Plural form of hangover.
- hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
- hardnosed — Describing a person who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.