9-Letter Words Starting with H

Hardy Adam undone by snake

Large poisonous Indian snake

Adam Hardy tamed snake

Twice-funny chance (wordplay)

Careless or random

Doubly a matter of chance

Lectured in a loud aggressive manner

Lectured hard and fought to pen article

Heard a gun and was forceful about it in a manner of speaking

Retained, as of a grudge

Sheltered bower he would go around

Going around the old city Deborah somehow gets entertained

DIY material

Sheet made from compressed sawdust and resin

Stiff sheet(s) of compressed wood pulp etc

; Hardcover.

Comic partner told of gangster's resilience

Hard for one to be near gangster with old-fashioned daring

Courage.

Paved area for parking

Warder hid criminal unable to be changed

Given job around sick ward, being determined

Technology magazine that's difficult to follow (wordplay)

Used to dress a hen quite differently

Geared, as draft animals.

Put to use

Speared, as a whale

Stuck in the sea

Here hands become coarsened and tough

Became unpleasantly stern

Harumph

Dealt with the outcrop (wordplay)

Farmed the runs (wordplay)

Gathered the crops

Pillow backing, perhaps

What the chairman does on the bed!

*Place to prop a pillow

Gave heed (to)

Got it, by the sound of it,

Gave ear to

Encouraged in cardiac way (wordplay)

Encouraged to listen to Edward X

Listen to Edward X; that'll buck you up

Vital region for a worm (wordplay)

*Vital central section of a country

Strategic central region

""The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum. duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.""

Hebraize

Herniate

""A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.""

Hirsel

Got raspy, as a voice

Carrier holds aptly named football manager having strained his voice (wordplay)

Aromatic mint

Coughdrop ingredient.

Herbaceous plant used to make throat lozenges

Rid of her? I am shocked

Mean to smother a cry of disapproval, being shocked

Shocked

English word

Strong-smelling plant of the mint family.

ACID a type of chemical compound

ARID {dry=adj}

Resembling a state of extreme emotion