9-letter words containing c, r, a, n, i
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- harmonica — Also called mouth organ. a musical wind instrument consisting of a small rectangular case containing a set of metal reeds connected to a row of holes, over which the player places the mouth and exhales and inhales to produce the tones.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- henrician — of or having to do with the reign, policies, etc. of any king named Henry, esp. Henry VIII of England
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- heritance — inheritance.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- 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.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- hyrcanian — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- ice apron — a structure built in a river upstream from a bridge pier or the like for protection against drifting ice.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- ignorance — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
- in accord — agreeing
- in camera — a judge's private office.
- in charge — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- inarching — to graft by uniting a growing branch to a stock without separating the branch from its parent stock.
- incarnate — embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form: a devil incarnate.
- incertain — Uncertain.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- increased — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- increaser — a person or thing that increases.
- increases — Plural form of increase.
- increated — Simple past tense and past participle of increate.
- incremate — (transitive) To cremate.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurtain — (obsolete) To curtain.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- indicator — a person or thing that indicates.
- indurance — Obsolete form of endurance.
- inerrancy — lack of error; infallibility.
- inerratic — not erratic or wandering; fixed: an inerratic star.
- inertance — the effect of inertia in an acoustic system, an impeding of the transmission of sound through the system.
- infarcted — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- infracted — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- infractor — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- inorganic — not having the structure or organization characteristic of living bodies.
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- insurance — the act, system, or business of providing financial protection for property, life, health, etc, against specified contingencies, such as death, loss, or damage, and involving payment of regular premiums in return for a policy guaranteeing such protection
- interacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interact.
- interarch — to have intersecting arches
- interclan — a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor: the Mackenzie clan.
- interface — a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases.
- interlace — progressive coding
- interrace — interracial
- intracity — Within a city.
- intraclub — Within a club.