9-letter words containing a, h
- acroliths — Plural form of acrolith.
- acropathy — any disease of the extremities.
- acrophobe — a person who is abnormally afraid of heights
- acrophony — the use of symbols to represent sounds
- addlehead — (colloquial) A foolish or dull-witted person.
- adephagia — bulimia (def 1).
- adherable — having the ability to adhere
- adherence — Adherence is the fact of adhering to a particular rule, agreement, or belief.
- adherents — Plural form of adherent.
- adhesions — Plural form of adhesion.
- adhesives — Plural form of adhesive.
- adhocracy — management that responds to urgent problems rather than planning to avoid them
- adiaphora — matters of indifference
- adigranth — Granth.
- adminship — The role of an administrator; administratorship.
- adulthood — Adulthood is the state of being an adult.
- advanceth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advance.
- aegisthus — a cousin to and the murderer of Agamemnon, whose wife Clytemnestra he had seduced. He usurped the kingship of Mycenae until Orestes, Agamemnon's son, returned home and killed him
- aerograph — a device formerly used to make descriptions of the character of the upper atmosphere
- aerophile — (biology) Any air-breathing organism.
- aerophobe — a person who suffers from aerophobia
- aerophone — any musical instrument in which sound is produced by air vibrations
- aerophore — a device which supplies oxygen in order to aid breathing
- aerophoto — aerial photograph.
- aerophyte — epiphyte.
- aeroshell — a protective shield, containing a parachute, which slows a spacecraft during re-entry to the earth's atmosphere and landing
- aeschines — ?389–?314 bc, Athenian orator; the main political opponent of Demosthenes
- aeschylus — ?525–?456 bc, Greek dramatist, regarded as the father of Greek tragedy. Seven of his plays are extant, including Seven Against Thebes, The Persians, Prometheus Bound, and the trilogy of the Oresteia
- aesthesia — the normal ability to experience sensation, perception, or sensitivity
- aesthesis — sensation; feeling.
- aesthetes — Plural form of aesthete.
- aesthetic — Aesthetic is used to talk about beauty or art, and people's appreciation of beautiful things.
- aethalium — a large, plump, pillow-shaped fruiting body of certain myxomycetes, formed by the aggregation of plasmodia into a single functional mass.
- aetheling — atheling.
- aethereal — ethereal
- affirmeth — Archaic third-person singular form of affirm.
- affordeth — Archaic third-person singular form of afford.
- affreight — to charter (a ship) as a freight carrier.
- aforehand — beforehand; in advance
- afterheat — the heat generated in a nuclear reactor after it has been shut down, produced by residual radioactivity in the fuel elements
- aftermath — The aftermath of an important event, especially a harmful one, is the situation that results from it.
- aftershow — a party held after a public performance of a play or film
- aggadatah — any traditional homiletic interpretation of scripture
- agnathans — Plural form of agnathan.
- agnathous — (esp of lampreys and hagfishes) lacking jaws
- ahad haam — Asher [ash-er] /ˈæʃ ər/ (Show IPA), (Achad Ha-Am; Ahad Ha-am) 1856–1927, Hebrew philosophical writer and editor, born in Russia.
- ahasuerus — a king of ancient Persia and husband of Esther, generally identified with Xerxes
- ahimelech — a priest who was killed by Saul for helping David. I Sam. 21:1–9; 22:9–23.
- ahistoric — not related to or concerned with documented history
- ahmedabad — a city in W India, in Gujarat: famous for its mosque. Pop: 3 515 361 (2001)