9-letter words containing h, a, i, r, n
- garnished — Simple past tense and past participle of garnish.
- garnishee — to attach (money or property) by garnishment.
- garnisher — to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate.
- garnishes — Plural form of garnish.
- garnishor — (legal) A person who garnishes; one who obtains a garnishment against another.
- garnishry — an adornment or decoration
- gathering — a drawing together; contraction.
- grannyish — typical of or suitable for an elderly woman; old-fashioned
- granolith — a composition stone for pavements, made from crushed granite or the like and cement.
- gynarchic — relating to gynarchy or rule by women
- haberdine — a cod that has been dried and salted
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- hadrian i — died a.d. 795, pope 772–795.
- hadrian v — died 1276, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1276.
- hagridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
- hagriding — Present participle of hagride.
- hairbands — Plural form of hairband.
- hairiness — covered with hair; having much hair.
- hairlines — Plural form of hairline.
- haltering — Present participle of halter.
- hammering — The sound or action of hammering something.
- hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- hamstring — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- han river — a dynasty in China, 206 b.c.–a.d. 220, with an interregnum, a.d. 9–25: characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion. Compare Earlier Han, Later Han.
- hand-ride — to ride (a horse) in a race without using a whip or spurs, urging it on with only the hands.
- handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- handprint — an impression or mark made with the palm and fingers on a surface.
- handrails — Plural form of handrail.
- handwrite — to write (something) by hand.
- hang fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- hangaring — a shed or shelter.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- harassing — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- harboring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard link — (file system) One of several directory entries which refer to the same Unix file. A hard link is created with the "ln" (link) command: ln
where and are pathnames within the same file system. Hard links to the same file are indistinguishable from each other except that they have different pathnames. They all refer to the same inode and the inode contains all the information about a file. The standard ln command does not usually allow you to create a hard link to a directory, chiefly because the standard rm and rmdir commands do not allow you to delete such a link. Some systems provide link and unlink commands which give direct access to the system calls of the same name, for which no such restrictions apply. Normally all hard links to a file must be in the same file system because a directory entry just relates a pathname to an inode within the same file system. The only exception is a mount point. The restrictions on hard links to directories and between file systems are very common but are not mandated by POSIX. Symbolic links are often used instead of hard links because they do not suffer from these restrictions. The space associated with a file is not freed until all the hard links to the file are deleted. This explains why the system call to delete a file is called "unlink". - hard sign — the Cyrillic letter Ъ, ъ as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is not palatalized: not in official use since 1918.
- hard-line — adhering rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan; uncompromising or unyielding: hard-line union demands.
- 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.
- 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
- harmdoing — the doing of harm
- 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.