9-letter words containing a, t, h, e, r
- hetaerism — concubinage.
- hetairism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- hexameter — a dactylic line of six feet, as in Greek and Latin epic poetry, in which the first four feet are dactyls or spondees, the fifth is ordinarily a dactyl, and the last is a trochee or spondee, with a caesura usually following the long syllable in the third foot.
- hibernate — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
- hieratica — a type of papyrus noted for its high quality and used by the ancient Egyptians in sacred books
- hierocrat — a person who believes in government by religious leaders
- himyarite — one of an ancient people of southern Arabia speaking a Semitic language.
- hippiater — (rare) A veterinarian specializing in horse care.
- hitlerian — of or relating to Adolf Hitler or his regime
- hoarstone — A stone designating the bounds of an estate; a landmark.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- horsecart — A cart drawn by a horse.
- horsemeat — The flesh of a horse as food.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hortative — hortatory.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- hot water — trouble; a predicament: His skipping classes will get him into real hot water when exam time comes.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- hybernate — Obsolete spelling of hibernate.
- hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- inbreathe — to breathe in; inhale.
- ingathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingather.
- inhabiter — inhabitant.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).
- interarch — to have intersecting arches
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- inwreathe — enwreathe.
- katharine — a popular female first name
- katherine — a female given name: from the Greek word meaning “pure.”.
- kharijite — a member of an ultraconservative, sometimes fanatical, sect emphasizing the importance of strict adherence to Muslim principles of conduct, and advocating the killing of anyone seriously violating those principles.
- laberinth — (obsolete) labyrinth.
- laberynth — Obsolete spelling of labyrinth.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- larghetto — a larghetto movement.
- later han — the Han dynasty after the interregnum a.d. 9–25.
- lathering — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- leathered — Simple past tense and past participle of leather.
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- lightyear — Alternative spelling of light year.
- lionheart — a person of exceptional courage and bravery.
- machmeter — a device that indicates airspeed relative to the speed of sound.
- macroetch — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- man-hater — someone, esp a woman, who dislikes or hates men
- manhunter — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- megahertz — a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second. Abbreviation: MHz.