9-letter words that end in d
- hesitated — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
- heteropod — any marine invertebrate with a foot or feet adapted for swimming
- hexachord — a diatonic series of six tones having, in medieval music, a half step between the third and fourth tones and whole steps between the others.
- hexaploid — having a chromosome number that is six times the haploid number.
- hiccupped — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- hidebound — narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant.
- high road — A high road is a main road.
- high-bred — of superior breed.
- highlited — Misspelling of highlighted.
- highspeed — Alternative form of high-speed.
- highstand — (geology) An interval during which the sea level was above the edge of a continental shelf.
- hildegard — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
- historied — abounding in notable history; having an illustrious past; storied: Italy is a richly historied land.
- hit squad — a team of hit men, as one organized for the purpose of assassinating a political figure.
- hive mind — the property of apparent sentience in a colony of social insects acting as a single organism, each insect performing a specific role for the good of the group.
- 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.
- hoarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of hoarsen.
- hobnailed — furnished with hobnails.
- hobnobbed — Simple past tense and past participle of hobnob.
- hodmandod — (obsolete) A snail.
- hold good — apply, remain true
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- holidayed — Simple past tense and past participle of holiday.
- holinshed — Raphael, died c1580, English chronicler.
- hollywood — the NW part of Los Angeles, Calif.: center of the American motion-picture industry.
- holstered — a sheathlike carrying case for a firearm, attached to a belt, shoulder sling, or saddle.
- holy land — Palestine (def 1).
- holy rood — the cross on which Jesus died.
- homebound — confined to one's home, especially because of illness.
- homestand — (baseball) A series of games played at a team's home field.
- homestead — a town in S Florida.
- homoploid — of an organism or a cell whose set of chromosomes exhibits the same degree of ploidy as an organism or cell with which it is compared.
- honeybird — Any of several drab honeyguides, of the genus Prodotiscus, from sub-Saharan Africa.
- hoofbound — (of horses and other hoofed animals) having the heels of the hoofs dry and contracted, causing lameness.
- 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.
- hornyhead — species of fish
- horrified — showing or indicating great shock or horror: a horrified gasp; a horrified expression.
- horsehead — moonfish (def 1).
- horsepond — A pond for watering horses.
- horseweed — a North American composite weed, Erigeron canadensis, having narrow, hairy leaves and clusters of very small greenish-white flowers.
- horsewood — A West Indian tree, Calliandra latifolia, with showy crimson blossoms.
- hotheaded — hot or fiery in spirit or temper; impetuous; rash: Hotheaded people shouldn't drive cars.
- hothoused — (of a child) having undergone hothousing
- hour hand — the hand that indicates the hours on a clock or watch.
- house red — a red wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- household — the people of a house collectively; a family including its servants.
- housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
- 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
- humanhood — the state or character of being human
- humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.