9-letter words containing s, h, e, d, r
- forehands — Plural form of forehand.
- foreheads — Plural form of forehead.
- freeholds — Plural form of freehold.
- freshened — Simple past tense and past participle of freshen.
- friendish — Like, or relating to a friend.
- furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- garnished — Simple past tense and past participle of garnish.
- gasholder — gasometer (def 2).
- goatherds — Plural form of goatherd.
- gooseherd — a person who tends geese.
- haberdash — To deal in small wares.
- hairslide — A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.
- handovers — Plural form of handover.
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- handsfree — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- handsomer — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- hard case — a tough person not swayed by sentiment
- 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 sell — aggressive sales
- hard-case — rough and hard-bitten: hard-case juvenile delinquents.
- hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
- hard-sell — characterized by or promoted through a hard sell: hard-sell tactics.
- hardeners — Plural form of hardener.
- hardheads — any composite plant of the genus Centaurea, especially the weedy C. nigra, having rose-purple flowers set on a dark-colored, knoblike bract.
- 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.
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
- hardwires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hardwire.
- harnessed — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
- harrassed — Simple past tense and past participle of harrass.
- harshened — Simple past tense and past participle of harshen.
- harvested — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- headdress — a covering or decoration for the head: a tribal headdress of feathers.
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- headraces — Plural form of headrace.
- headrails — Plural form of headrail.
- headrests — Plural form of headrest.
- headscarf — A square of fabric worn as a covering for the head, often folded into a triangle and knotted under the chin.
- headstart — Alternative spelling of head start.
- headwards — backwards beyond the original source
- headwords — Plural form of headword.
- heartseed — (botany) Any plant of the species of Cardiospermum, climbing plants with round seeds marked with a spot like a heart.
- hedgerows — Plural form of hedgerow.
- heliodors — Plural form of heliodor.
- hellwards — towards hell
- henderson — Arthur, 1863–1935, British statesman and labor leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1934.