Phrase Hound found 35 phrases and 62 compound words that contain hens. The most common are listed below. Open hens in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 35
- hens' nightA hen night.
- battery hensplural of battery hen: A hen kept in a small cage or battery.
- heath hensplural of heath hen: A female black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix).
- hens' nightsplural of hens' night: A hen night.
- hens' teethplural of hen's tooth: Anything not naturally occurring.
- mud hensplural of mud hen: Any of various rails and coots, especially the Virginia rail (Rallus limicola), or the American coot (Fulica americana).
- turkey-hensplural of turkey-hen: A female turkey.
- water hensplural of water hen: The moorhen.
- hens and chickensplural of hen and chicken: Any of several groups of plants of similar appearance:
- blue hensplural of blue hen: A mare who benefits a breed by producing many high-quality offspring.
- bush-hensplural of bush-hen: Some species of bird in the genus Amaurornis in the family Rallidae.
- Cornish hensplural of Cornish hen: A young broiler chicken (not an actual game bird, nor necessarily female) sold whole.
- gray hensplural of gray hen: Alternative form of grey hen (“female black grouse”).
- grey hensplural of grey hen: A female of the black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix.
- hazel-hensplural of hazel-hen: A hazel grouse.
- hens upthird-person singular simple present indicative of hen up: To find a receptive female mate.
- jungle hensplural of jungle hen: The female of the junglefowl.
- laying hensplural of laying hen: A hen raised for egg production, as opposed to a parent flock hen, raised to produce chicks.
- Maori hensplural of Maori hen: A weka, of species Gallirallus australis.
- marsh hensplural of marsh hen: Waterfowl of the familia Rallidae
- mother hensplural of mother hen: A female chicken who bears eggs or chicks.
- native hensplural of native hen: Any member of genus Tribonyx of rails, of Australia.
- rice hensplural of rice hen: The common American gallinule.
- sage hensplural of sage hen: The sage grouse, especially the female.
- sea hensplural of sea hen: Any of various seabirds, including
Compound words 62
- StephensA surname transferred from the given name.
- HensleyA surname.
- hyphensplural of hyphen: The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.
- lichensplural of lichen: Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow-to-blue–green patches on rocks, old walls, etc.
- HenshawA village and civil parish in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY765645).
- heathensplural of heathen: Not adhering to an Abrahamic religion; pagan.
- HenshallA surname.
- HensherA surname.
- richensthird-person singular simple present indicative of richen: To make or render rich or richer.
- HenslowA surname.