9-letter words containing a, t, h, r, o
- authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
- authorial — Authorial means relating to the author of something such as a book or play.
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorish — like or similar to an author
- authorism — the state or condition of being author
- authority — The authorities are the people who have the power to make decisions and to make sure that laws are obeyed.
- authorize — If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
- autograph — An autograph is the signature of someone famous which is specially written for a fan to keep.
- autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
- auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
- barkcloth — Cloth made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry or similar tree.
- bartholdi — Frédéric August. 1834–1904, French sculptor and architect, who designed (1884) the Statue of Liberty
- batchelor — (British) alternative spelling of bachelor.
- bathrobes — Plural form of bathrobe.
- bathrooms — Plural form of bathroom.
- betrothal — A betrothal is an agreement to be married.
- bohr atom — See under Bohr theory.
- broach to — to turn or swing so that the beam faces the waves and wind and there is danger of swamping or capsizing
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
- catchword — A catchword is a word or phrase that becomes popular or well-known, for example, because it is associated with a political campaign.
- catchwork — A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
- charleton — a male given name.
- charlotte — a baked dessert served hot or cold, commonly made with fruit and layers or a casing of bread or cake crumbs, sponge cake, etc
- charoseth — haroseth.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chat room — A chat room is a site on the Internet where people can exchange messages about a particular subject.
- chatrooms — Plural form of chatroom.
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- chinaroot — the root of either of two plants, the galanga or the smilax
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- choreatic — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- chromatic — In music, chromatic means related to the scale that consists only of semitones.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromatin — the part of the nucleus that consists of DNA and proteins, forms the chromosomes, and stains with basic dyes
- chromato- — indicating colour or coloured
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- co-author — The co-authors of a book, play, or report are the people who have written it together.
- coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
- cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- colcothar — a finely powdered form of ferric oxide produced by heating ferric sulphate and used as a pigment and as jewellers' rouge
- cothamore — a frieze fabric, often used in the manufacture of overcoats.
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy