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9-letter words containing a, h

  • allegheny — river in W Pennsylvania, joining the Monongahela at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio: 325 mi (523 km)
  • allethrin — a clear viscous amber-coloured liquid used as an insecticide and synergist. Formula: C19H26O3; relative density: 1.005
  • allicholy — a feeling of sadness and despondency
  • allingham — Margery. 1904–66, British author of detective stories, featuring Albert Campion. Her works include Tiger in the Smoke (1952) and The Mind Readers (1965)
  • allmouths — Plural form of allmouth.
  • allograph — a document written by a person who is not a party to it
  • allomorph — any of the phonological representations of a single morpheme. For example, the final (s) and (z) sounds of bets and beds are allomorphs of the English noun-plural morpheme
  • allopathy — the orthodox medical method of treating disease, by inducing a condition different from or opposed to the cause of the disease
  • allophane — a variously coloured amorphous mineral consisting of hydrated aluminium silicate and occurring in cracks in some sedimentary rocks
  • allophone — any of several speech sounds that are regarded as contextual or environmental variants of the same phoneme. In English the aspirated initial (p) in pot and the unaspirated (p) in spot are allophones of the phoneme /p/
  • allthough — Obsolete form of although.
  • almohades — a member of a Muslim dynasty ruling in Spain and northern Africa during the 12th and 13th centuries.
  • almshouse — Almshouses are houses in Britain which were built and run by charities to provide accommodation for poor or old people who could not afford to pay rent.
  • aloha net — (networking)   (From the Hawaiian greeting) One of the first functioning networks in the USA, conceived and implimented at the University of Hawaii campus at Manoa. Its purpose was to link the University mainframe computer to client computers located on outer islands at University campuses. Put in place in the early 1970s, it was dubed the Aloha Net. Key punch cards were fed through a reader, and sent over the commercial phone lines.
  • alpenhorn — a long, powerful horn of wood or bark, with a cupped mouthpiece and a curved bell at opposite ends, used by Swiss herders and mountaineers.
  • alpha ev6 — EV6
  • alpha ray — ionizing radiation consisting of a stream of alpha particles
  • alphabets — Plural form of alphabet.
  • alphagram — The letters of a word, or any other set of letters, arranged into alphabetical order.
  • alphasort — to arrange in alphabetical order
  • alphonsus — a crater in the SE quadrant of the moon, about 112 km in diameter, in which volcanic activity may have occurred
  • alt-right — (in the US) a political movement whose supporters hold extreme right-wing views and reject mainstream politics
  • althusser — Louis. 1918–90, French Marxist philosopher, author of For Marx (1965) and Reading Capital (1965): committed to a mental hospital (1981) after killing his wife
  • altigraph — an instrument that measures altitude and records the measurements graphically
  • amalthaea — the goat that nurses Zeus (Jupiter): one of its horns is called the cornucopia
  • amaranths — Plural form of amaranth.
  • amberfish — amberjack.
  • ambushing — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
  • amenhotep — name of four kings of Egypt who ruled during the 16th, 15th, & 14th cent. b.c.
  • amethysts — Plural form of amethyst.
  • amianthus — any of the fine silky varieties of asbestos
  • amidships — Amidships means halfway along the length of a ship.
  • amorphism — the state or quality of being amorphous.
  • amorphous — Something that is amorphous has no clear shape or structure.
  • amphibian — Amphibians are animals such as frogs and toads that can live both on land and in water.
  • amphibole — any of a large group of minerals consisting of the silicates of calcium, iron, magnesium, sodium, and aluminium, usually in the form of long slender dark-coloured crystals. Members of the group, including hornblende, actinolite, and tremolite, are common constituents of igneous rocks
  • amphiboly — ambiguity of speech, especially from uncertainty of the grammatical construction rather than of the meaning of the words, as in The Duke yet lives that Henry shall depose.
  • amphigory — a piece of nonsensical writing in verse or, less commonly, prose
  • amphinome — a maiden who, along with her sister Evadne, was deceived by Medea into murdering their father, Pelias.
  • amphioxus — cephalochordate
  • amphipods — Plural form of amphipod.
  • amphitruo — a comedy (c200 b.c.) by Plautus.
  • ampholyte — an amphoteric electrolyte
  • amthamine — A histamine agonist selective for the H2 subtype.
  • anabranch — a stream that leaves a river and enters it again further downstream
  • anacharis — a genus of water plant native to North America and commonly used in aquariums
  • anachrony — a discrepancy between the order of events in a story and the order in which they are presented in the plot: Anachronies are either flashbacks or flashforwards.
  • anaglyphs — Plural form of anaglyph.
  • ananthous — (of higher plants) having no flowers
  • anaphasic — relating to the third stage in cell division
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