9-letter words containing nd
- handsfree — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- handshake — handshaking
- handshape — (in sign language) the held position of the hand and fingers in producing a particular sign.
- handsomer — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handsomes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of handsome.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- handstaff — a small spear
- handstamp — an implement for stamping an impression
- handstand — an act or instance of supporting the body in a vertical position by balancing on the palms of the hands.
- handsturn — an amount of work or the period of time spent doing a piece of work
- handtowel — a small piece of thick soft cloth used to dry the hands
- handwheel — a wheel, as a valve wheel, turned by hand.
- handwoven — made on a handloom; handloomed.
- handwrite — to write (something) by hand.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hardbound — (of a book) bound with a stiff cover, usually of cloth or leather; casebound.
- hardstand — a hard-surfaced area on which heavy vehicles or airplanes can be parked.
- hat stand — tall structure to hang hats on
- head wind — wind blowing head-on
- headbands — Plural form of headband.
- headlands — Plural form of headland.
- headstand — an act or instance of supporting the body in a vertical position by balancing on the head usually with the aid of the hands.
- headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
- heartland — the part of a region considered essential to the viability and survival of the whole, especially a central land area relatively invulnerable to attack and capable of economic and political self-sufficiency.
- heathland — An extensive area of heath.
- helgoland — a German island in the North Sea. ¼ sq. mi. (0.6 sq. km).
- hellbound — Bound for Hell; damned.
- hellhound — a mythical watchdog of hell.
- henderson — Arthur, 1863–1935, British statesman and labor leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1934.
- hendiadys — a figure in which a complex idea is expressed by two words connected by a copulative conjunction: “to look with eyes and envy” instead of “with envious eyes.”.
- hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- hereunder — under or below this; subsequent to this.
- hermandad — an informal police force in Spain
- hernandez — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1834–86, Argentine poet.
- hidebound — narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant.
- highlands — a region in N Scotland, including a number of the Inner Hebrides. 9710 sq. mi. (25,148 sq. km).
- highstand — (geology) An interval during which the sea level was above the edge of a continental shelf.
- hind wing — the second, posterior, or metathoracic wing of an insect.
- hindafell — Hindfell.
- hindberry — a raspberry
- hindbrain — the most posterior of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue, including the cerebellum, pons, and medulla oblongata; rhombencephalon.
- hindemith — Paul, 1895–1963, U.S. composer, born in Germany.
- hindenbug — (humour) A catastrophic, data-destroying bug, after the 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster.
- hindering — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- hindlimbs — Plural form of hindlimb alternative spelling of hind limbs.
- hindooism — the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- hindshank — the meat from an animal's hind leg
- hindsight — recognition of the realities, possibilities, or requirements of a situation, event, decision etc., after its occurrence.