9-letter words containing a, h
- anthodium — the flower head or bracts of a composite plant, as in daisies or asters
- anthology — An anthology is a collection of writings by different writers published together in one book.
- anthotaxy — the arrangement of flowers on a stem or parts on a flower
- anthozoan — any of the solitary or colonial sessile marine coelenterates of the class Anthozoa, including the corals, sea anemones, and sea pens, in which the body is in the form of a polyp
- anthozoic — relating to anthozoans
- anthracic — relating to anthrax
- anthropic — of or relating to human beings
- anthropo- — indicating man or human
- anthropod — Misspelling of arthropod.
- anthurium — any of various tropical American aroid plants constituting the genus Anthurium, many of which are cultivated as house plants for their showy foliage and their flowers, which are borne in a long-stalked spike surrounded by a flaring heart-shaped white or red bract
- anti-hero — An anti-hero is the main character in a novel, play, or film who is not morally good and does not behave like a typical hero.
- antichain — (mathematics) A subset S of a partially ordered set P is an antichain if, for all x, y in S, x <= y => x = y I.e. no two different elements are related. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq).
- antichild — Opposing children.
- antichlor — a substance used to remove chlorine from a material after bleaching or to neutralize the chlorine present
- antideath — Preventing death.
- antigraph — A copy or transcript.
- antihelix — the rounded piece of cartilage inside the outer rim (helix) of the ear; anthelix
- antihuman — opposed to or hostile to humanity, inhuman
- antimacho — opposed to macho attitudes
- antiochus — name of thirteen kings of the Seleucid dynasty of Syria
- antipathy — Antipathy is a strong feeling of dislike or hostility towards someone or something.
- antiphase — (physics, mathematics) A difference in phase (of two waves) of 180°.
- antiphone — (music) The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or singing.
- antiphons — Plural form of antiphon.
- antiphony — the antiphonal singing of a musical composition by two choirs
- antishake — denoting a technology that reduces the blurring caused by movement of the person taking a photograph
- antishark — designed to protect against shark attacks
- antishock — designed to reduce the force of impact
- antitheft — (of a device, campaign, system, etc) designed to prevent theft
- antiwhite — hostile to White people
- antshrike — any of several antbirds, especially of the genus Thamnophilus, superficially resembling the shrike.
- anythings — a thing of any kind.
- anywheres — in, at, or to any place.
- apartheid — Apartheid was a political system in South Africa in which people were divided into racial groups and kept apart by law.
- apatheism — (religion) Apathy towards the existence of a god; belief that the question of the existence of a god is unimportant.
- apatheist — (religion) A person who may accept the existence of a god, but who does not care about that god's existence.
- apathetic — If you describe someone as apathetic, you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about doing anything.
- aphanitic — of or resembling aphanite
- apheresis — the omission of a letter or syllable at the beginning of a word
- apheretic — Standard spelling of aphaeretic.
- aphetized — (linguistics, of a word) Having undergone aphesis, the removal of an unstressed initial vowel.
- aphorisms — Plural form of aphorism.
- aphorized — Simple past tense and past participle of aphorize.
- aphorizer — a person who aphorizes
- aphorizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aphorize.
- aphrodite — the goddess of love and beauty, daughter of Zeus
- aphyllous — (of plants) having no leaves
- apiphobia — An inordinate fear of bees.
- apishness — The state or quality of being apish.
- apocrypha — the 14 books included as an appendix to the Old Testament in the Septuagint and the Vulgate but not included in the Hebrew canon. They are not printed in Protestant versions of the Bible