9-letter words containing a, t, r, h
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- parthians — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
- party hat — a hat, often made of paper, worn at a party
- patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
- patriarch — the male head of a family or tribal line.
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- petahertz — one quadrillion (10 15) hertz. Abbreviation: PHz.
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- phanerite — any igneous rock whose grains are visible to the naked eye.
- phanotron — a hot-cathode gas diode.
- phonatory — rapid, periodic opening and closing of the glottis through separation and apposition of the vocal cords that, accompanied by breath under lung pressure, constitutes a source of vocal sound.
- photocard — A photocard is a card with a person's photograph on it, which they can use to prove who they are.
- photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
- physiatry — physical medicine.
- phytosaur — any armored, semiaquatic reptile of the extinct order Phytosauria, of the Mesozoic Era, resembling the crocodile but unrelated, having the nostrils high on the snout and with well-developed hind limbs suggestive of bipedal ancestors.
- pie chart — a graphic representation of quantitative information by means of a circle divided into sectors, in which the relative sizes of the areas (or central angles) of the sectors correspond to the relative sizes or proportions of the quantities.
- porchetta — Italian boneless stuffed pork cut from a whole roast pig
- postcrash — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a crash
- pothecary — apothecary.
- pratchett — Sir Terence (David John), known as Terry. (1948–2015), British writer, noted for his comic fantasy novels in the Discworld series
- pre-chart — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- pre-death — the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. Compare brain death.
- preheater — an appliance used to preheat something
- pretaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
- prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prothorax — the anterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the first pair of legs.
- pyothorax — empyema.
- pyracanth — a thorny evergreen shrub of the genus Pyracantha, related to the hawthorn
- race hate — the hate of or bias against people of other races
- radiothon — an on-the-air radio campaign, often lasting 24 hours or more, designed to raise money for a radio station, charity, the arts, etc., as from listeners phoning in and pledging specific donations, sometimes in exchange for gifts or premiums.
- rajasthan — a state in NW India; formerly Rajputana and a group of small states. 132,078 sq. mi. (342,056 sq. km). Capital: Jaipur.
- ranchette — a small-scale ranch, typically of only a few acres.
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- rap sheet — a record kept by law-enforcement authorities of a person's arrests and convictions.
- ratcheted — a toothed bar with which a pawl engages.
- ratherest — most readily, most willingly
- ratherish — fairly, moderately
- rechabite — a total abstainer from alcoholic drink, esp a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a society devoted to abstention
- recharter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- red earth — a clayey zonal soil of tropical savanna lands, formed by extensive chemical weathering, coloured by iron compounds, and less strongly leached than laterite
- red heart — a treelike Californian shrub, Ceanothus spinosus, of the buckthorn family, having pale blue or white flowers.
- reheating — heating again.
- rehydrate — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
- reichsrat — German History. the upper house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- reichstag — the lower house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- reinhabit — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- reinhardt — Jean Baptiste [French zhahn ba-teest] /French ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), ("Django") 1910–53, Belgian gypsy jazz guitarist.
- rh factor — any of a type of specific antigen present on the surface of red blood cells, persons having inherited such antigens being designated Rh+ (Rh positive) and persons lacking them, a much smaller group, being designated Rh− (Rh negative) blood of Rh− persons is incompatible with Rh+ blood because of antibody reaction, and an Rh− woman who bears an Rh+ baby will have formed antibodies to the fetal blood that, unless removed from her bloodstream by apheresis in a subsequent pregnancy, will be carried across the placenta and destroy red blood cells of the next Rh+ fetus, resulting in erythroblastosis in the newborn.