9-letter words containing h, a, r, i, s
- harestail — a species of cotton grass, Eriophorum vaginatum, more tussocky than common cotton grass and having only a single flower head
- harigalds — the intestines of an animal
- 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.
- harridans — Plural form of harridan.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- haustoria — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- 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.
- havildars — Plural form of havildar.
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- headrails — Plural form of headrail.
- heartiest — warm-hearted; affectionate; cordial; jovial: a hearty welcome.
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
- heartsink — a patient who repeatedly visits his or her doctor's surgery, often with multiple or non-specific symptoms, and whose complaints are impossible to treat
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- herbalism — The study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, now especially as a form of alternative medicine.
- herbalist — a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
- heritages — Plural form of heritage.
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- hesitater — One who hesitates.
- hesitator — Alternative spelling of hesitater.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- hetaerism — concubinage.
- hetairism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- hierarchs — Plural form of hierarch.
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hippocras — an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- hiroshima — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: first military use of atomic bomb August 6, 1945.
- hissarlik — the modern name of the site of ancient Troy.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- 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.
- hormisdas — Saint, died a.d. 523, pope 514–523.
- horntails — Plural form of horntail.
- horsehair — a hair or the hair of a horse, especially from the mane or tail.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- hydracids — Plural form of hydracid.
- hydrastis — goldenseal (def 2).
- ingathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingather.
- inhearsed — Simple past tense and past participle of inhearse.
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- irish sea — a part of the Atlantic between Ireland and England.