9-letter words containing e, n, h, a, r
- hang over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hanger-on — a person who remains in a place or attaches himself or herself to a group, another person, etc., although not wanted, especially in the hope or expectation of personal gain.
- hangerson — a person who remains in a place or attaches himself or herself to a group, another person, etc., although not wanted, especially in the hope or expectation of personal gain.
- hangovers — Plural form of hangover.
- hankerers — Plural form of hankerer.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- hansberry — Lorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.
- harangued — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- haranguer — One who harangues.
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- hard fern — a common tufted erect fern of the polypody family, Blechnum spicant, having dark-green lanceolate leaves: it prefers acid soils, and in the US is sometimes grown as deer feed
- hard lens — a contact lens of rigid plastic or silicon, exerting light pressure on the cornea of the eye, used for correcting various vision problems including astigmatism.
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- hard news — serious news of widespread import, concerning politics, foreign affairs, or the like, as distinguished from routine news items, feature stories, or human-interest stories.
- hard-line — adhering rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan; uncompromising or unyielding: hard-line union demands.
- hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
- hardanger — embroidery openwork having elaborate symmetrical designs created by blocks of satin stitches within which threads of the embroidery fabric are removed.
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- hardeners — Plural form of hardener.
- hardening — a material that hardens another, as an alloy added to iron to make steel.
- hardiment — hardihood.
- hardiness — the capacity for enduring or sustaining hardship, privation, etc.; capability of surviving under unfavorable conditions.
- hardliner — Alternative spelling of hard-liner.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- hardnosed — Describing a person who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
- harkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- harlequin — (often initial capital letter) a comic character in commedia dell'arte and the harlequinade, usually masked, dressed in multicolored, diamond-patterned tights, and carrying a wooden sword or magic wand.
- harlingen — a city in S Texas.
- harmaline — a chemical derived from the harmala plant, used as a hallucinogen or used in conjunction with other hallucinogens
- harmonies — Plural form of harmony.
- harmonise — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmonite — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmonize — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harnessed — the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
- harnesser — One who harnesses.
- harnesses — Plural form of harness.
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
- harpooner — a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
- harshened — Simple past tense and past participle of harshen.
- harshness — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
- haversian — designating or of the canals through which blood vessels and connective tissue pass in bone
- haversine — one half the versed sine of a given angle or arc.
- hawthorne — Nathaniel, 1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- headliner — a performer whose name appears most prominently in a program or advertisement or on a marquee; star.
- hearkened — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- hearkener — One who hearkens; a listener.
- heartburn — an uneasy burning sensation in the stomach, typically extending toward the esophagus, and sometimes associated with the eructation of an acid fluid.
- heartened — to give courage or confidence to; cheer.