9-letter words containing a, e, r, o
- hangerson — a person who remains in a place or attaches himself or herself to a group, another person, etc., although not wanted, especially in the hope or expectation of personal gain.
- hangovers — Plural form of hangover.
- harborage — shelter for vessels, as that provided by a harbor.
- harborers — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harboured — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harbourer — A person who harbours another.
- hard core — pornography: obscene
- hard doer — a tough worker at anything
- hard-core — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
- hardcover — a book bound in cloth, leather, or the like, over stiff material: Hardcovers are more durable than paperbacks.
- hardnosed — Describing a person who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
- hariolate — to practise divination or to prophesy
- harmonies — Plural form of harmony.
- harmonise — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmonite — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmonize — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmotome — a zeolite mineral related to stilbite, occurring in twinned crystals.
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
- harpooner — a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
- harrogate — a town in N England, in North Yorkshire: a former spa, now a centre for tourism and conferences. Pop: 70 811 (2001 est)
- hash over — a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy.
- haushofer — Karl, 1860–1946, German geographer and general: political adviser to Hitler.
- haverford — a township in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- headboard — a board forming the head of anything, especially of a bed.
- headwords — Plural form of headword.
- hear from — receive news, correspondence from sb
- heartsome — giving cheer, spirit, or courage: a heartsome wine.
- heartsore — heartsick.
- heartwood — the hard central wood of the trunk of an exogenous tree; duramen.
- heartworm — a parasitic nematode, Dirofilaria immitis, transmitted by mosquito and invading the heart and pulmonary arteries of dogs, wolves, and foxes throughout its range in tropical, subtropical and, more recently, temperate regions around the world.
- heatproof — not affected or damaged by heat, especially when placed in an oven or over a direct flame: heatproof cookware.
- hectogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- hektogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- heliogram — a message sent by a heliograph.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- herbivora — grass-eating animals collectively
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- hereabout — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- heronshaw — a heron
- hesitator — Alternative spelling of hesitater.
- 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.
- hexameron — hexaemeron.
- hierocrat — a person who believes in government by religious leaders
- hierogram — a sacred symbol, as an emblem, pictograph, or the like.
- hoariness — The characteristic of being hoary.
- hoarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of hoarsen.