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9-letter words containing a, t, r, h

  • sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
  • spreathed — sore; chapped
  • stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
  • stalworth — stalwart.
  • starlight — the light emanating from the stars.
  • starshine — starlight
  • startlish — (of a horse) easily startled
  • stathenry — the electrostatic unit of inductance, equivalent to 8.9876 × 10 11 henries and equal to the inductance of a circuit in which an electromotive force of one statvolt is produced by a current in the circuit which varies at the rate of one statampere per second.
  • stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
  • stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
  • stomacher — a richly ornamented garment covering the stomach and chest, worn by both sexes in the 15th and 16th centuries, and later worn under a bodice by women.
  • stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
  • straights — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • straphang — to travel as a straphanger.
  • straw hat — of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
  • straw-hat — designating, of, or having to do with a summer theater or summer theaters
  • strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
  • stroupach — a cup of tea
  • strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
  • superheat — the state of being superheated.
  • swarthout — Gladys, 1904–69, U.S. soprano.
  • tabasheer — dried bamboo sap, used medicinally in the Far East
  • tachogram — the record produced by the action of a tachometer.
  • tahsildar — (in India) a collector for, or official of, the revenue department.
  • tarnished — metal: discolored
  • teacherly — characteristic of or pertaining to a teacher; pedagogic.
  • tearsheet — a page in a newspaper or periodical that is cut or perforated so that it can be easily torn out
  • tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
  • telegraph — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
  • tephigram — a chart depicting variations in atmospheric conditions relative to altitude
  • terahertz — one trillion (10 12) hertz. Abbreviation: THz.
  • terai hat — a felt sun helmet with a high crown and wide brim, worn especially in the subtropics.
  • tetrarchy — any ruler of a fourth part, division, etc.
  • thackeray — William Makepeace [meyk-pees] /ˈmeɪkˌpis/ (Show IPA), 1811–63, English novelist, born in India.
  • thanjavur — a city in E Tamil Nadu, in SE India.
  • the great — those who are great
  • the races — a series of contests of speed between horses (or sometimes greyhounds) over a set course at prearranged times; a race meeting
  • the rains — the season of heavy rainfall, esp in the tropics
  • the raven — a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
  • the strap — a beating with a strap as a punishment
  • the-trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
  • theandric — relating to the state of being both divine and human, esp pertaining to Christ
  • theatrics — (used with a singular verb) the art of staging plays and other stage performances.
  • theocracy — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
  • theocrasy — a mixture of religious forms and deities by worshipers.
  • theolatry — worship of a deity.
  • theralite — a coarse-grained, phaneritic rock composed of labradorite, nepheline, and augite.
  • therapist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
  • therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
  • theravada — Hinayanist name for Hinayana.
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