9-letter words containing s, h, a, d, o
- hands off — of, belonging to, using, or used by the hand.
- hands-off — characterized by nonintervention or noninterference: the new hands-off foreign policy.
- handsomer — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handsomes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of handsome.
- hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
- hardgoods — durable goods, such as automobiles, furniture, etc.
- 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.
- hardwoods — Plural form of hardwood.
- hazardous — full of risk; perilous; risky: a hazardous journey.
- head shop — a shop selling paraphernalia of interest to drug users or associated with the use of drugs.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- headnotes — Plural form of headnote.
- headshots — Plural form of headshot.
- headstock — the part of a machine containing or directly supporting the moving or working parts, as the assembly supporting and driving the live spindle in a lathe.
- headstone — a stone marker set at the head of a grave; gravestone.
- headwords — Plural form of headword.
- hebdomads — Plural form of hebdomad.
- 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.
- hogsheads — Plural form of hogshead.
- hold sway — have influence
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- holdfasts — Plural form of holdfast.
- homelands — Plural form of homeland.
- homestand — (baseball) A series of games played at a team's home field.
- homestead — a town in S Florida.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- hormisdas — Saint, died a.d. 523, pope 514–523.
- horsehead — moonfish (def 1).
- hospodars — Plural form of hospodar.
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hydrosoma — hydrosome.
- hydrostat — an electrical device for detecting the presence of water, as from overflow or leakage.
- lead shot — small round pellets of lead, used in cartridges
- leasehold — property acquired under a lease.
- loosehead — (rugby) prop who plays on the left hand side of the front row of the scrum.
- madhouses — Plural form of madhouse.
- mogadishu — an independent republic on the E coast of Africa, formed from the former British Somaliland and the former Italian Somaliland. 246,198 sq. mi. (637,653 sq. km). Capital: Mogadishu.
- mold wash — a coating applied in liquid form to walls of a mold cavity.
- mossadegh — Mohammed, 1880–1967, Iranian statesman: premier 1951–53.
- overheads — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
- overshade — to cast shade over.
- phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
- rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhodesian — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.