9-letter words containing w, h, e
- hansetown — Hansa (def 3).
- 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.
- hardwired — Computers. built into a computer's hardware and thus not readily changed. (of a terminal) connected to a computer by a direct circuit rather than through a switching network.
- hardwires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hardwire.
- hawk-eyed — having very keen sight: a hawk-eyed guard.
- hawke bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the E coast of North Island, New Zealand.
- hawkweeds — Plural form of hawkweed.
- hawsehole — a hole in the stem or bow of a vessel for an anchor cable.
- hawsepipe — an iron or steel pipe in the stem or bow of a vessel through which an anchor cable passes.
- hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- hazelwood — a town in E Missouri.
- head wall — a cliff or steep slope rising at one end of a glaciated valley.
- head wind — wind blowing head-on
- headwards — backwards beyond the original source
- headwater — A tributary stream of a river close to or forming part of its source.
- headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
- headwords — Plural form of headword.
- heartwood — the hard central wood of the trunk of an exogenous tree; duramen.
- heartworm — a parasitic nematode, Dirofilaria immitis, transmitted by mosquito and invading the heart and pulmonary arteries of dogs, wolves, and foxes throughout its range in tropical, subtropical and, more recently, temperate regions around the world.
- heat wave — an air mass of high temperature covering an extended area and moving relatively slowly.
- heatwaves — Plural form of heatwave.
- hedgerows — Plural form of hedgerow.
- hell week — the week of hazing before initiation into a college fraternity or sorority.
- hellspawn — (fantasy) A creature or creatures from Hell.
- hellwards — towards hell
- hemingway — Ernest (Miller) 1899–1961, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist: Nobel Prize 1954.
- heronshaw — a heron
- hicks yew — a hybrid yew, Taxus media hicksii, having a columnar manner of growth.
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- high wine — Often, high wines. Distilling. a distillate containing a high percentage of alcohol.
- high wire — a tightrope stretched very high above the ground.
- hogwaller — Alternative spelling of hog waller.
- holloware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- hollowest — Superlative form of hollow.
- holy week — the week preceding Easter Sunday.
- home news — news of events in the home country, as opposed to foreign news
- home town — town or city where one grew up
- home-brew — beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.
- homegrown — grown or produced at home or in a particular region for local consumption: homegrown tomatoes.
- homeowner — a person who owns a home.
- hometowns — Plural form of hometown.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- honeworts — Plural form of honewort.
- honeydews — Plural form of honeydew.
- honeywell — (company) A US company known for its mainframes and operating systems. The company's history is long and tortuous, with many mergers, acquisitions and name changes. A company formed on 1886-04-23 to make furnace regulators eventually merged in 1927 with another company formed in 1904 by a young plumbing and heating engineer named Mark Honeywell who was perfecting the heat generator. A 1955 joint venture with Raytheon Corp., called Datamatic Corporation, marked Honeywell's entry into the computer business. Their first computer was the D-1000. In 1960 Honeywell bought out Raytheon's interest and the name changed to Electronic Data Processing (EDP) then in 1963 it was officially renamed Honeywell Inc. In 1970 Honeywell merged its computer business with General Electric's to form Honeywell Information Systems. In 1986 a joint venture with the french company Bull and japanese NEC Corporation created Honeywell Bull. By 1991 Honeywell had withdrawn from the computer business, focussing more on aeropspace. See also: brain-damaged.
- honeywort — a plant, Cerinthe retorta, of Greece, having bluish-green leaves and purple-tipped yellow flowers.
- hoosegows — Plural form of hoosegow.
- horseweed — a North American composite weed, Erigeron canadensis, having narrow, hairy leaves and clusters of very small greenish-white flowers.
- horsewhip — a whip for controlling horses.