9-letter words containing h, a, r, i, s
- cantharis — Spanish fly (sense 1)
- cashiered — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- cashierer — a person who rejects or dismisses from office
- catharise — purify
- catharsis — Catharsis is getting rid of unhappy memories or strong emotions such as anger or sadness by expressing them in some way.
- chairdays — old age, or the point in life when resting in a chair is the most comfortable way of passing time
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- chantries — Plural form of chantry.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- chaprassi — an office worker or doorman
- chariness — the state of being chary
- charismas — Plural form of charisma.
- charities — Plural form of charity.
- charles i — title as Holy Roman Emperor of Charlemagne
- charmings — Plural form of charming.
- charolais — a breed of large white beef cattle that originated in France
- charteris — Leslie, original name Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin. 1907–93, British novelist, born in Singapore: created the character Simon Templar, known as The Saint, the central character in many adventure novels
- chartings — Plural form of charting.
- chartists — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.
- charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- chastiser — Someone who chastises.
- chimaeras — Plural form of chimaera.
- chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- christian — A Christian is someone who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ.
- christina — 1626–89, queen of Sweden (1632–54), daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, noted particularly for her patronage of literature
- christmas — Christmas is a Christian festival when the birth of Jesus Christ is celebrated. Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December.
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis
- chrysalis — A chrysalis is a butterfly or moth in the stage between being a larva and an adult.
- churidars — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
- citharist — a player of the cithara
- crampfish — a ray of the order Torpediniformes with electric organs on either side of its head
- crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
- 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
- degarnish — to remove ornamentation from (something)
- diagraphs — Plural form of diagraph.
- diarrheas — Plural form of diarrhea.
- dihedrals — Plural form of dihedral.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- disbranch — to break or cut (a branch) off a tree or shrub.
- discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
- dish rack — frame for drying dishes
- dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- dragonish — Having the characteristics of a dragon.
- dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- earthrise — the rising of the earth above the horizon of the moon or other celestial body, viewed from that body's surface or from a spacecraft orbiting it.
- ekphrasis — (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.
- eparchies — Plural form of eparchy.
- epigraphs — Plural form of epigraph.