9-letter words containing s, h, o, r
- headwords — Plural form of headword.
- heartsome — giving cheer, spirit, or courage: a heartsome wine.
- heartsore — heartsick.
- hectorism — the character or actions of a hector
- hedgerows — Plural form of hedgerow.
- heirlooms — Plural form of heirloom.
- heliodors — Plural form of heliodor.
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- henderson — Arthur, 1863–1935, British statesman and labor leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1934.
- herborist — herbalist.
- herdbooks — Plural form of herdbook.
- here goes — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- here's to — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- herodotus — 484?–425? b.c, Greek historian.
- heroinism — an addiction to heroin
- heronries — Plural form of heronry.
- heronshaw — a heron
- hesitator — Alternative spelling of hesitater.
- heteroses — Plural form of heterosis.
- heterosex — heterosexuality.
- heterosis — the increase in growth, size, fecundity, function, yield, or other characters in hybrids over those of the parents.
- heyrovsky — Jaroslav [yah-raw-slahf] /ˈyɑ rɔ slɑf/ (Show IPA), 1890–1967, Czech chemist: Nobel Prize 1959.
- hickories — Plural form of hickory.
- highbrows — Plural form of highbrow.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hillsboro — a town in NW Oregon.
- hippocras — an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- hircosity — the quality of being like a goat
- hiroshige — Ando [ahn-daw] /ˈɑnˈdɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Tokube") 1797–1858, Japanese painter.
- hiroshima — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: first military use of atomic bomb August 6, 1945.
- histogram — a graph of a frequency distribution in which rectangles with bases on the horizontal axis are given widths equal to the class intervals and heights equal to the corresponding frequencies.
- historian — an expert in history; authority on history.
- historied — abounding in notable history; having an illustrious past; storied: Italy is a richly historied land.
- histories — the branch of knowledge dealing with past events.
- historify — to make something part of history or to tell the history of something
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hoarfrost — frost (def 2).
- 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.
- hog score — a line at each end of the rink, parallel to the foot score and usually 7 yards (6.4 meters) in advance of the tee.
- holdovers — Plural form of holdover.
- hollister — a town in W California.
- holograms — Plural form of hologram.
- holstered — a sheathlike carrying case for a firearm, attached to a belt, shoulder sling, or saddle.
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- homefries — Plural form of homefry.