9-letter words containing s, h, a, n, i
- headiness — intoxicating: a heady wine.
- headlines — Plural form of headline.
- headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
- 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
- heat sink — Thermodynamics. any environment or medium that absorbs heat.
- heaviness — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
- hendiadys — a figure in which a complex idea is expressed by two words connected by a copulative conjunction: “to look with eyes and envy” instead of “with envious eyes.”.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- hesitance — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- 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.
- himations — Plural form of himation.
- hindshank — the meat from an animal's hind leg
- hindustan — Persian name of India, especially the part N of the Deccan.
- hispanism — a movement in Latin America for the promotion of Spanish or of native culture and influence. Compare hispanidad.
- hispanist — a specialist in the Spanish or Portuguese language or in Spanish or Latin-American literature or culture.
- histamine — Biochemistry, Physiology. a heterocyclic amine, C 5 H 9 N 3 , released by mast cells when tissue is injured or in allergic and inflammatory reactions, causing dilation of small blood vessels and smooth muscle contraction.
- historian — an expert in history; authority on history.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hoariness — The characteristic of being hoary.
- hobbesian — a person who believes in or advocates the principles of Thomas Hobbes.
- hooligans — Plural form of hooligan.
- horntails — Plural form of horntail.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- hostaging — a person given or held as security for the fulfillment of certain conditions or terms, promises, etc., by another.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.
- humanists — Plural form of humanist.
- humanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humanize.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- hyacinths — Plural form of hyacinth.
- in ambush — If someone is lying in ambush, they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.
- ingathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingather.
- inhalants — Plural form of inhalant.
- inhearsed — Simple past tense and past participle of inhearse.
- inshallah — If Allah wills it.
- insheathe — ensheathe.
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- isanthous — having regular flowers.
- isohaline — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- jargonish — jargonistic
- jinriksha — A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.
- k'ang hsi — (Shêng-tsu) 1654?–1722, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1662–1722.
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- kashubian — a West Slavic language closely related to Polish and spoken in northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula.
- khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- kiungshan — Qiongshan.