9-letter words containing r, h, o, d, a
- diarrhoea — If someone has diarrhoea, a lot of liquid faeces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- dichondra — any of a genus of creeping perennial herbs of the Convolvulaceae family, with white, pale yellow, or green flowers
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- drag shoe — a type of braking device on a vehicle
- drag show — a performance by drag artists
- draghound — a hound for use in following a hunting drag, specifically bred for speed and stamina rather than subtlety of sense of smell.
- dragonish — Having the characteristics of a dragon.
- draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dreamhole — a light-admitting hole in a tower
- drop arch — a pointed arch having radii of length less than the span.
- dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- earth-god — a god of fertility and vegetation.
- ecohazard — any substance or activity that poses a threat to a habitat or an environment: Off-the-road motorcycling is an ecohazard to fragile desert habitats.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- fairyhood — a fairy nature or state: the fairyhood of Puck.
- floorhead — the upper side of a floor timber on a boat or ship
- foolhardy — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- forehands — Plural form of forehand.
- foreheads — Plural form of forehead.
- gasholder — gasometer (def 2).
- goatherds — Plural form of goatherd.
- godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
- good hair — hair showing evidence of some European strain in a person's blood
- grayhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- hadrosaur — a bipedal dinosaur of the genus Hadrosaurus, belonging to the ornithopod family Hadrosauridae of the late Cretaceous Period, having broad, flat jaws for scooping up water plants.
- hand horn — a forerunner of the modern French horn, developed in Germany during the mid-17th century.
- hand over — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-roll — (jargon) (From mainstream slang "hand-rolled cigarette" in opposition to "ready-made") To perform a normally automated software installation or configuration process by hand; implies that the normal process failed due to bugs or was defeated by something exceptional in the local environment. "The worst thing about being a gateway between four different nets is having to hand-roll a new sendmail configuration every time any of them upgrades."
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- 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.
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- harboured — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard boot — (operating system) A boot which resets the entire system. The phrase has connations of hostility toward, or frustration with, the computer being booted. For example, "I'll have to hard boot this losing Sun", or "I recommend booting it hard". Hard boots are often performed with a power cycle. Contrast soft boot. See also cold boot and reboot
- hard coal — anthracite.
- hard copy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hard core — pornography: obscene
- hard doer — a tough worker at anything
- hard loan — a foreign loan which is to be paid back in an agreed currency which has stability and economic strength
- hard porn — hard-core pornography.
- hard rock — heavy form of popular music
- hard-boil — to boil (an egg) until the yolk and white have become firm or solid.
- hard-core — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
- hard-rock — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
- hardboard — a material made from wood fibers compressed into sheets, having many household and industrial uses.
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.