9-letter words containing h, a, o, r, i
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- bartholdi — Frédéric August. 1834–1904, French sculptor and architect, who designed (1884) the Statue of Liberty
- behaviors — manner of behaving or acting.
- behaviour — People's or animals' behaviour is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behaviour.
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- biohazard — material of biological origin that is hazardous to humans
- biohermal — a carbonate rock formation, in the form of an ancient reef or hummock, consisting of the fossilized remains of corals, algae, mollusks, and other sedentary marine life, and commonly surrounded by rock of a different lithology.
- body hair — hair that grows on the body as opposed to the head or face
- branchio- — gills
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
- chancroid — a soft venereal ulcer, esp of the male genitals, caused by infection with the bacillus Haemophilus ducreyi
- charbroil — to grill (meat) over charcoal
- charleroi — a town in SW Belgium, in Hainaut province: centre of an industrial region. Pop: 200 608 (2004 est)
- charolais — a breed of large white beef cattle that originated in France
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
- chinaroot — the root of either of two plants, the galanga or the smilax
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chirimoya — cherimoya.
- chloranil — a yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 6 Cl 4 O 2 , used chiefly as a fungicide and as an intermediate in the manufacture of dyes.
- choleraic — relating to, like, or developing from cholera
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- choreatic — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- choroidal — relating to the choroid
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- chromatic — In music, chromatic means related to the scale that consists only of semitones.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromatin — the part of the nucleus that consists of DNA and proteins, forms the chromosomes, and stains with basic dyes
- chromidia — chromatins in cell cytoplasm
- chronaxie — the minimum time required for excitation of a nerve or muscle when the stimulus is double the minimum (threshold) necessary to elicit a basic response
- chronical — relating to or controlled by time
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- cohabiter — to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
- crosshair — either of the two fine mutually perpendicular lines or wires that cross in the focal plane of a theodolite, gunsight, or other optical instrument and are used to define the line of sight
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- diarrhoea — If someone has diarrhoea, a lot of liquid faeces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- dichondra — any of a genus of creeping perennial herbs of the Convolvulaceae family, with white, pale yellow, or green flowers
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- dragonish — Having the characteristics of a dragon.
- dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- esophoria — (ophthalmology) Inward deviation of the eye usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance.
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- exophoria — (ophthalmology) A form of heterophoria in which there is a tendency of the eyes to deviate outward.
- fairyhood — a fairy nature or state: the fairyhood of Puck.
- fashioner — a person who fashions, forms, or gives shape to anything.
- forsythia — a shrub belonging to the genus Forsythia, of the olive family, native to China and southeastern Europe, species of which are cultivated for their showy yellow flowers, which blossom on the bare branches in early spring.