9-letter words containing c, e, r, a
- hard case — a tough person not swayed by sentiment
- hard core — pornography: obscene
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- hard-case — rough and hard-bitten: hard-case juvenile delinquents.
- hard-core — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hardcover — a book bound in cloth, leather, or the like, over stiff material: Hardcovers are more durable than paperbacks.
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
- harvest c — A C compiler, assembler and linker for the Macintosh by Eric W. Sink. The parts of the system are integrated in a single application, which manages a "project" composed by several C source files and resource files (which contain data). Version 1.3.
- haversack — a single-strapped bag worn over one shoulder and used for carrying supplies.
- headchair — a chair with a support for the head
- headraces — Plural form of headrace.
- headreach — the distance made to windward while tacking
- headscarf — A square of fabric worn as a covering for the head, often folded into a triangle and knotted under the chin.
- heart cam — Machinery. a cam with a single lobe having the general shape of a heart.
- heartache — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
- hectogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- henrician — of or having to do with the reign, policies, etc. of any king named Henry, esp. Henry VIII of England
- heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hepteract — (mathematics) A seven-dimensional hypercube.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- heretical — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- heritance — inheritance.
- heucheras — Plural form of heuchera.
- hexachord — a diatonic series of six tones having, in medieval music, a half step between the third and fourth tones and whole steps between the others.
- hexameric — Of or pertaining to a hexamer.
- hierarchs — Plural form of hierarch.
- hierarchy — any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
- 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
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- home care — a service provided by a local authority social services department to those whom it judges most need it
- home-care — of, relating to, or designating care, especially medical care, given or received at home: a member of the hospital's home-care staff.
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- horsecars — Plural form of horsecar.
- horsecart — A cart drawn by a horse.
- horserace — Alternative spelling of horse race.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- huaraches — Plural form of huarache.
- hurricane — a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
- hyperacid — Highly acidic.
- hypercard — A software package by Bill Atkinson for storage and retrieval of information on the Macintosh. It can handle images and is designed for browsing. The powerful customisable interactive user interface allows new applications to be easily constructed by manipulating objects on the screen, often without conventional programming, though the language HyperTalk can be used for more complex tasks.
- ice apron — a structure built in a river upstream from a bridge pier or the like for protection against drifting ice.