9-letter words containing oa
- goatskins — Plural form of goatskin.
- greatcoat — a heavy overcoat.
- grid road — a municipal road that follows a grid line established by the original survey of the area.
- hard coal — anthracite.
- hard loan — a foreign loan which is to be paid back in an agreed currency which has stability and economic strength
- hardboard — a material made from wood fibers compressed into sheets, having many household and industrial uses.
- head-load — baggage or goods arranged so as to be carried on the heads of African porters
- headboard — a board forming the head of anything, especially of a bed.
- heliozoan — a protozoan of the order Heliozoa, having a spherical body and radiating pseudopods.
- hematozoa — Plural form of hematozoon.
- high road — A high road is a main road.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hoarfrost — frost (def 2).
- 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.
- 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.
- hoatching — infested; swarming
- holly oak — holm oak.
- homoallyl — (organic chemistry, often in combination) the univalent radical CH2=CH-CH2-CH2-.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- housecoat — a woman's robe or dresslike garment in various lengths, for casual wear about the house.
- hydrozoan — any freshwater or marine coelenterate of the class Hydrozoa, including free-swimming or attached types, as the hydra, in which one developmental stage, either the polyp or medusa, is absent, and colonial types, as the Portuguese man-of-war, in which both medusa and polyp stages are present in a single colony.
- iceboater — a person who races iceboats, especially as a hobby or in competition.
- iliopsoas — (anatomy) A compound muscle composed of the iliac and psoas muscles.
- inroading — Present participle of inroad.
- interloan — a loan between one library and another
- jeroboams — Plural form of jeroboam.
- johnboats — Plural form of johnboat.
- jollyboat — Alternative form of jolly boat.
- justicoat — justaucorps.
- kai moana — seafood
- keelboats — Plural form of keelboat.
- keyboards — Plural form of keyboard.
- kickboard — a buoyant, usually small board that is used to support the arms of a swimmer, used chiefly in practicing kicking movements.
- kiteboard — A specialized light weight wakeboard used for kiteboarding.
- kneeboard — a short board for surfing or water-skiing in a kneeling position.
- landboard — a narrow board, with wheels larger than those on a skateboard, usually ridden while standing
- lapboards — Plural form of lapboard.
- leeboards — Plural form of leeboard.
- lensboard — the usually removable front panel of a view camera or enlarger on which the lens is mounted.
- life-boat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- lightboat — a small lightship.
- link road — a road used to link two cities or two more major hubs of road transport
- live load — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- load down — If you load someone down with things, especially heavy things, you give them a large number of them or put a large number of them on them.
- load fund — a mutual fund that carries transaction charges, usually a percentage of the initial investment.
- load line — Also called Plimsoll line. any of various lines marked on the sides of a cargo vessel to indicate the depth to which a vessel may be immersed under certain conditions. Compare freeboard (def 1a).
- loadspace — the area in a motor vehicle where a load can be carried