9-letter words containing a, h, r, d
- bernhardt — Sarah. original name Rosine Bernard. 1844–1923, French actress, regarded as one of the greatest tragic actresses of all time
- biohazard — material of biological origin that is hazardous to humans
- birdwatch — to watch birds
- birthdate — Your birthdate is the same as your date of birth.
- blow-hard — an exceptionally boastful and talkative person.
- boarhound — a hound used to chase boar
- body hair — hair that grows on the body as opposed to the head or face
- bradlaugh — Charles. 1833–91, British radical and freethinker: barred from taking his seat in parliament (1880–86) for refusing to take the parliamentary oath
- brandreth — a gridiron, iron trivet, or tripod
- breadhead — a person who is overly concerned with money
- broadhead — a flat, triangular, steel arrowhead with sharp edges.
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- cantharid — any beetle of the family Cantharidae, having a soft elongated body; though found frequenting flowers, they are carnivorous
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- cardpunch — a device, no longer widely used, controlled by a computer, for transferring information from the central processing unit onto punched cards
- cardshark — (chiefly, US) A cardsharp.
- cardsharp — a professional card player who cheats
- cash card — A cash card is a card that banks give to their customers so that they can get money out of a cash dispenser.
- cashiered — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- catchword — A catchword is a word or phrase that becomes popular or well-known, for example, because it is associated with a political campaign.
- cathartid — (zoology) Any member of the Cathartidae.
- cathedral — A cathedral is a very large and important church which has a bishop in charge of it.
- chaffered — Simple past tense and past participle of chaffer.
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- chair bed — a chair that can be opened out to form a bed.
- chairdays — old age, or the point in life when resting in a chair is the most comfortable way of passing time
- chairlady — chairwoman.
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- chambered — having a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- chamfered — a cut that is made in wood or some other material, usually at a 45° angle to the adjacent principal faces. Compare bevel.
- chancroid — a soft venereal ulcer, esp of the male genitals, caused by infection with the bacillus Haemophilus ducreyi
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.
- chandlery — the business, warehouse, or merchandise of a chandler
- chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
- chardzhou — a city in E Turkmenistan, on the Amu Darya.
- chartered — Chartered is used to indicate that someone, such as an accountant or a surveyor, has formally qualified in their profession.
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- chattered — to talk rapidly in a foolish or purposeless way; jabber.
- cheerlead — to lead a crowd in formal cheers at sports events
- childcare — Childcare refers to looking after children, and to the facilities which help parents to do so.
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
- chondroma — a benign cartilaginous growth or neoplasm
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- choroidal — relating to the choroid
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromidia — chromatins in cell cytoplasm
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis