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9-letter words containing s, a, d, h, r

  • fishguard — a port and resort in SW Wales, in Pembrokeshire: ferry connections to Cork and Rosslare. Pop: 3193 (2001)
  • flashcard — a card having words, numerals, or pictures on it, designed for gaining a rapid response from pupils when held up briefly by a teacher, used especially in reading, arithmetic, or vocabulary drills.
  • forehands — Plural form of forehand.
  • foreheads — Plural form of forehead.
  • garnished — Simple past tense and past participle of garnish.
  • gasholder — gasometer (def 2).
  • goatherds — Plural form of goatherd.
  • guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
  • haberdash — To deal in small wares.
  • 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.
  • hairbands — Plural form of hairband.
  • hairslide — A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.
  • halliards — Plural form of halliard.
  • hamadryas — A large baboon, Papio hamadryas, from northern Africa and Arabia, that was sacred in ancient Egypt.
  • handcarts — Plural form of handcart.
  • handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
  • handovers — Plural form of handover.
  • handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
  • handrails — Plural form of handrail.
  • handsfree — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
  • handsomer — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
  • handsturn — an amount of work or the period of time spent doing a piece of work
  • hard case — a tough person not swayed by sentiment
  • hard cash — actual money as distinguished from checks or credit.
  • hard disk — magnetic disk (def 1).
  • hard lens — a contact lens of rigid plastic or silicon, exerting light pressure on the cornea of the eye, used for correcting various vision problems including astigmatism.
  • hard mass — Jewelry. a hard glass used for imitating gemstones.
  • hard news — serious news of widespread import, concerning politics, foreign affairs, or the like, as distinguished from routine news items, feature stories, or human-interest stories.
  • hard sell — aggressive sales
  • hard sign — the Cyrillic letter Ъ, ъ as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is not palatalized: not in official use since 1918.
  • hard-case — rough and hard-bitten: hard-case juvenile delinquents.
  • hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
  • hard-sell — characterized by or promoted through a hard sell: hard-sell tactics.
  • hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
  • hardbacks — Plural form of hardback.
  • hardeners — Plural form of hardener.
  • hardgoods — durable goods, such as automobiles, furniture, etc.
  • hardgrass — any of several types of coarse grass
  • hardhacks — Plural form of hardhack.
  • hardheads — any composite plant of the genus Centaurea, especially the weedy C. nigra, having rose-purple flowers set on a dark-colored, knoblike bract.
  • hardiness — the capacity for enduring or sustaining hardship, privation, etc.; capability of surviving under unfavorable conditions.
  • hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
  • hardnosed — Describing a person who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
  • hardparts — the skeleton
  • hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
  • hardships — Plural form of hardship.
  • hardstand — a hard-surfaced area on which heavy vehicles or airplanes can be parked.
  • hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
  • hardwires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hardwire.
  • hardwoods — Plural form of hardwood.
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