9-letter words containing h, a, o, r, i
- garnishor — (legal) A person who garnishes; one who obtains a garnishment against another.
- good hair — hair showing evidence of some European strain in a person's blood
- granolith — a composition stone for pavements, made from crushed granite or the like and cement.
- hail from — to cheer, salute, or greet; welcome.
- hailstorm — a storm with hail.
- hair loss — the loss of human hair from the head; balding
- hair-lock — a curl of the hair of the head
- haircloth — cloth of hair from the manes and tails of horses, woven with a cotton warp, and used for interlinings of clothes, upholstery, etc.
- hairworms — Plural form of hairworm.
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- 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-boil — to boil (an egg) until the yolk and white have become firm or solid.
- hardihood — boldness or daring; courage.
- hariolate — to practise divination or to prophesy
- 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.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- harmonies — Plural form of harmony.
- harmonise — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmonist — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmonite — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmonium — an organlike keyboard instrument with small metal reeds and a pair of bellows operated by the player's feet.
- harmonize — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harold ii — 1022?–66, king of England 1066: defeated by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings (son of Earl Godwin).
- harrovian — of or relating to Harrow.
- harrowing — extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous: a harrowing experience.
- hatinator — a small decorative hat, worn on social occasions
- haustoria — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- haworthia — any of various succulent plants of the genus Haworthia, native to South Africa, having densely overlapping, often warty leaves clustered in rosettes.
- heliogram — a message sent by a heliograph.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- herbivora — grass-eating animals collectively
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- hesitator — Alternative spelling of hesitater.
- hierocrat — a person who believes in government by religious leaders
- hierogram — a sacred symbol, as an emblem, pictograph, or the like.
- high road — A high road is a main road.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hippocras — an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
- hiroshima — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: first military use of atomic bomb August 6, 1945.
- histogram — a graph of a frequency distribution in which rectangles with bases on the horizontal axis are given widths equal to the class intervals and heights equal to the corresponding frequencies.
- historian — an expert in history; authority on history.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hoariness — The characteristic of being hoary.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holarctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- homiliary — a collection of homilies.
- honoraria — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.