9-letter words containing a, t, r, h
- horsemeat — The flesh of a horse as food.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hortation — The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation.
- hortative — hortatory.
- hortatory — urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech.
- 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.
- hydranths — Plural form of hydranth.
- hydrastis — goldenseal (def 2).
- hydrating — Present participle of hydrate.
- hydration — any of a class of compounds containing chemically combined water. In the case of some hydrates, as washing soda, Na 2 CO 3 ⋅10H 2 O, the water is loosely held and is easily lost on heating; in others, as sulfuric acid, SO 3 ⋅H 2 O, or H 2 SO 4 , it is strongly held as water of constitution.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hydrolant — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Atlantic Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hydronaut — a person trained to work in deep-sea vessels for research and rescue purposes.
- hydrostat — an electrical device for detecting the presence of water, as from overflow or leakage.
- hygrostat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- 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.
- in-thrall — to captivate or charm: a performer whose grace, skill, and virtuosity enthrall her audiences.
- inbreathe — to breathe in; inhale.
- indraught — an inward flow or current, as of air or water.
- ingathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingather.
- inhabiter — inhabitant.
- inhabitor — One who inhabits.
- inhalator — an apparatus designed to mix carbon dioxide and oxygen, especially for use in artificial respiration.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).
- interarch — to have intersecting arches
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- inwreathe — enwreathe.
- kamarhati — a city in West Bengal state, in NE India, a suburb of Kolkata.
- kantharos — a deep bowl set upon a stem terminating in a foot and having two handles rising from the brim and curving downward to join the body.
- karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- katharine — a popular female first name
- katharsis — Alt form catharsis.
- katherine — a female given name: from the Greek word meaning “pure.”.
- kathiawar — a peninsula on the W coast of India.
- 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.
- kritarchy — Rule by judges.
- kshatriya — a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans.
- kurchatov — Igor Vasilievich [ee-guh r-vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈi gər vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–60, Soviet nuclear physicist.
- laberinth — (obsolete) labyrinth.
- laberynth — Obsolete spelling of labyrinth.
- labryinth — Misspelling of labyrinth.
- labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lanthorns — Plural form of lanthorn.
- lap-chart — a log of every lap covered by each car in a race, showing the exact position throughout