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

  • handsturn — an amount of work or the period of time spent doing a piece of work
  • 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 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 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-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
  • hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
  • hardeners — Plural form of hardener.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • harnessed — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
  • harridans — Plural form of harridan.
  • harshened — Simple past tense and past participle of harshen.
  • herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
  • hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
  • hoarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of hoarsen.
  • husbander — A person who husbands resources.
  • husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
  • hydranths — Plural form of hydranth.
  • increased — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
  • indeavors — Plural form of indeavor.
  • inhearsed — Simple past tense and past participle of inhearse.
  • instarred — to set with or as if with stars.
  • interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
  • ironclads — Plural form of ironclad.
  • isandrous — having the stamens similar to each other and equal in number to the petals.
  • islanders — Plural form of islander.
  • junkyards — Plural form of junkyard.
  • jusserand — Jean (Adrien Antoine) Jules [zhahn a-dree-ahn ahn-twan zhyl] /ʒɑ̃ a driˈɑ̃ ɑnˈtwan ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1855–1932, French diplomat, historian, and essayist.
  • kidnapers — Plural form of kidnaper.
  • krasnodar — a territory of the Russian Federation in SE Europe. 34,200 sq. mi. (88,578 sq. km).
  • kronstadt — a naval base in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, on an island in the Gulf of Finland: fortress founded 1710.
  • kurdistan — a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
  • landdrost — the chief magistrate of a district
  • landforms — a specific geomorphic feature on the surface of the earth, ranging from large-scale features such as plains, plateaus, and mountains to minor features such as hills, valleys, and alluvial fans.
  • landlords — Plural form of landlord.
  • landmarks — Plural form of landmark.
  • landshark — a person who makes inordinate profits by buying and selling land
  • landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
  • landwards — Also, landwards. toward the land or interior.
  • laundress — a woman whose work is the washing and ironing of clothes, linens, etc.
  • laundries — Plural form of laundry.
  • lavenders — Plural form of lavender.
  • lensboard — the usually removable front panel of a view camera or enlarger on which the lens is mounted.
  • loanwords — Plural form of loanword.
  • madperson — (gender-neutral) A madman or madwoman.
  • malanders — a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.
  • mandarins — Plural form of mandarin.
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