9-letter words containing s, e, r, n
- hangovers — Plural form of hangover.
- hankerers — Plural form of hankerer.
- hansberry — Lorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- 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-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
- 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.
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
- harmonies — Plural form of harmony.
- harmonise — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harnessed — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
- harnesser — One who harnesses.
- harnesses — Plural form of harness.
- harshened — Simple past tense and past participle of harshen.
- harshness — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
- haversian — designating or of the canals through which blood vessels and connective tissue pass in bone
- haversine — one half the versed sine of a given angle or arc.
- heartsink — a patient who repeatedly visits his or her doctor's surgery, often with multiple or non-specific symptoms, and whose complaints are impossible to treat
- helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- helsingør — a port in NE Denmark, in NE Zealand: site of Kronborg Castle (16th century), famous as the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Pop: 35 002 (2004 est)
- henderson — Arthur, 1863–1935, British statesman and labor leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1934.
- hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- henneries — Plural form of hennery.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- heroinism — an addiction to heroin
- heronries — Plural form of heronry.
- heronshaw — a heron
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- hesternal — (rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
- hirelings — Plural form of hireling.
- hoariness — The characteristic of being hoary.
- hoarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of hoarsen.
- hoarstone — A stone designating the bounds of an estate; a landmark.
- honeworts — Plural form of honewort.
- honorless — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horniness — consisting of a horn or a hornlike substance; corneous.
- hornpipes — Plural form of hornpipe.
- hornstone — a variety of quartz resembling flint.
- horsemint — a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
- horsepond — A pond for watering horses.
- horsiness — The quality of being, or resembling, a horse.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hunkerism — a member of the conservative faction in the Democratic Party in New York State, 1845–48.
- hunteress — Obsolete form of huntress.