9-letter words containing s, h, a, d
- hesitated — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- highlands — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
- highstand — (geology) An interval during which the sea level was above the edge of a continental shelf.
- hillsdale — a town in NE New Jersey.
- hindshank — the meat from an animal's hind leg
- hindustan — Persian name of India, especially the part N of the Deccan.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- hit squad — a team of hit men, as one organized for the purpose of assassinating a political figure.
- 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.
- humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- husbanded — a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandly — Having the characteristics of a husband; marital.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hydracids — Plural form of hydracid.
- hydranths — Plural form of hydranth.
- hydrastis — goldenseal (def 2).
- hydraulus — a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.
- 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.
- inhearsed — Simple past tense and past participle of inhearse.
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- ischiadic — (obsolete) ischiatic.
- jihadists — Plural form of jihadist.
- ladysmith — a city in W Natal, in the E Republic of South Africa: besieged by Boers 1889–1900.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- landshark — a person who makes inordinate profits by buying and selling land
- 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.
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.
- lustihead — lustiness