9-letter words containing u, n, h, r
- draghound — a hound for use in following a hunting drag, specifically bred for speed and stamina rather than subtlety of sense of smell.
- edinburgh — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- ehrenburg — Ilya Grigorievich (iljˈja ɡriˈɡɔrjɪvitʃ). 1891–1967, Soviet novelist and journalist. His novel The Thaw (1954) was the first published in the Soviet Union to deal with repression under Stalin
- enshrouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enshroud.
- enwrought — (archaic) Made from (a material).
- eutherian — A mammal of the major group Eutheria, which includes all the placentals and excludes the marsupials and monotremes.
- fresh-run — (of fish) newly migrated upstream from the sea, esp to spawn
- furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- furnisher — One who furnishes.
- furnishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of furnish.
- go hungry — If people go hungry, they do not have enough food to eat.
- gorehound — an enthusiast of gory horror films
- grauncher — a person who crushes or destroys
- grayhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- greenough — Horatio, 1805–52, U.S. sculptor.
- grewhound — a greyhound
- greyhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- grouching — Present participle of grouch.
- groundhog — woodchuck.
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- half-turn — a 180-degree turn; a direct reversal of direction or orientation, as from front to back or left to right.
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handguard — A guard on the front of a weapon for hand and finger protection, or to allow for attachments to the weapon.
- handsturn — an amount of work or the period of time spent doing a piece of work
- harangued — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- haranguer — One who harangues.
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- harlequin — (often initial capital letter) a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.
- harmonium — an organlike keyboard instrument with small metal reeds and a pair of bellows operated by the player's feet.
- haut-rhin — a department in NE France. 1354 sq. mi. (3505 sq. km). Capital: Colmar.
- heartburn — an uneasy burning sensation in the stomach, typically extending toward the esophagus, and sometimes associated with the eructation of an acid fluid.
- hen fruit — a hen's egg or eggs.
- herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
- hereunder — under or below this; subsequent to this.
- heuneburg — an excavated prehistoric site in S Germany, near Ulm, consisting chiefly of a great early Iron Age fortification dating mostly to the second half of the first millennium b.c. and indicating that the inhabitants carried on an extensive trade with cities in the eastern Mediterranean.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- hired gun — a person hired to kill someone, as a gunfighter or professional killer.
- hirudinea — the class comprising the leeches.
- hirundine — of, relating to, or resembling the swallow.
- hoarhound — an Old World plant, Marrubium vulgare, of the mint family, having downy leaves and small, whitish flowers, and containing a bitter, medicinal juice that is used as an expectorant, vermifuge, and laxative.
- honourary — Misspelling of honorary.
- honouring — to hold in honor or high respect; revere: to honor one's parents.
- honourous — Rare spelling of honorous.
- horehound — an Old World plant, Marrubium vulgare, of the mint family, having downy leaves and small, whitish flowers, and containing a bitter, medicinal juice that is used as an expectorant, vermifuge, and laxative.
- hornpouts — Plural form of hornpout.
- hour hand — the hand that indicates the hours on a clock or watch.
- howlround — the condition, resulting in a howling noise, when sound from a loudspeaker is fed back into the microphone of a public-address or recording system