9-letter words containing t, h, e, n, o
- home town — town or city where one grew up
- home unit — a self-contained residence which is part of a series of similar residences
- homefront — Alternative form of home front.
- homestand — (baseball) A series of games played at a team's home field.
- hometowns — Plural form of hometown.
- honestest — (nonstandard) Superlative form of honest.
- honesties — Plural form of honestie.
- honeworts — Plural form of honewort.
- honey ant — any of several ants, especially of the genus Myrmecocystus, that feed on honeydew or nectar and store the excess juices in the bodies of certain worker ants.
- honey pot — any of a caste of workers in certain species of ants, that serve as living storehouses for a honeylike material later used by the whole colony
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- honeywort — a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
- hornstone — a variety of quartz resembling flint.
- horsemint — a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- hot fence — an electric fence surrounding a farm
- hot money — funds transferred suddenly from one country to another chiefly to avoid depreciation in value or to take advantage of higher interest rates.
- hotelling — (in office management) a practice in which desk space must be booked in advance by an employee as required
- hottentot — Khoikhoi.
- how then? — what is the meaning of this?
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotize — to put in the hypnotic state.
- in theory — in principle
- inheritor — a person who inherits; heir.
- jotunheim — the outer world, or realm of giants; Utgard.
- khodzhent — a city in N Tajikistan on the Syr Darya.
- knotholes — Plural form of knothole.
- lionheart — a person of exceptional courage and bravery.
- lithopone — a white pigment consisting of zinc sulfide, barium sulfate, and some zinc oxide, used as a pigment and filler in the manufacture of paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powders.
- loathness — Unwillingness; reluctance.
- mahometan — a name formerly in Western usage but never used among Muslims for the Muslim religion
- mantyhose — a one-piece clinging garment covering the body from the waist to the feet, worn by men
- mash note — an effusive note or letter expressing affection or passion for the recipient, usually a stranger or someone known only casually
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- mesh knot — sheet bend.
- metaphone — (algorithm, text) An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- methadone — a synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 8 ClNO, similar to morphine but effective orally, used in the relief of pain and as a heroin substitute in the treatment of heroin addiction.
- monoethyl — (organic chemistry, especially in combination) A single ethyl group in a molecule.
- monteiths — Plural form of monteith.
- monthlies — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- more than — a greater number or amount than
- moth bean — a low, trailing Indian plant, Vigna aconitifolia, of the legume family, having yellow flowers grown for forage and edible, mottled grayish-yellow seeds.
- motheaten — Alt form moth-eaten.
- mothering — a female parent.
- motlanthe — Kgalema (ɡɑːˈlɛmə). born 1949, South African statesman: president (2008–09)