9-letter words containing h, a, r, s, n
- loanshark — Alternative spelling of loan shark.
- longhairs — Plural form of longhair.
- maharanis — Plural form of maharani.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- marathons — Plural form of marathon.
- marsh hen — any of various rails or raillike birds.
- marshland — a region, area, or district characterized by marshes, swamps, bogs, or the like.
- merchants — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- mindshare — Relative public awareness of a phenomenon.
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- narghiles — Plural form of narghile.
- narrowish — somewhat narrow
- narthexes — Plural form of narthex.
- nasiriyah — a city in S Iraq, on the River Euphrates; agricultural and trading centre. Pop: 425 000 (2005 est)
- nearshore — extending from or occurring along a shore.
- nightjars — Plural form of nightjar.
- north sea — an arm of the Atlantic between Great Britain and the European mainland. About 201,000 sq. mi. (520,600 sq. km); greatest depth, 1998 feet (610 meters).
- northants — Northamptonshire
- northeast — a point on the compass midway between north and east. Abbreviation: NE.
- nothosaur — An extinct semiaquatic carnivorous reptile of the Triassic period, having a slender body and long neck, related to the plesiosaurs.
- on shares — with each person concerned taking a share of the profit or loss
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- parsonish — like a parson
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- parthians — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
- phansigar — a person from East India who operates as a thief and a murderer
- phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
- plansheer — plancer.
- rajasthan — a state in NW India; formerly Rajputana and a group of small states. 132,078 sq. mi. (342,056 sq. km). Capital: Jaipur.
- ram singh — 1816–85, Indian leader of a puritanical Sikh sect, the Kukas, who tried to remove the British from India through a policy of noncooperation
- ranchless — having no ranch or ranches
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- ravishing — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- red shank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- refashion — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- rehashing — to work up (old material) in a new form.
- reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
- resharpen — to sharpen again
- revarnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
- rhodesian — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- saccharin — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 7 H 5 NO 3 S, produced synthetically, which in dilute solution is 500 times as sweet as sugar: its soluble sodium salt is used as a noncaloric sugar substitute in the manufacture of syrups, foods, and beverages.
- sandhurst — a village in S England, near Reading, W of London: military college.
- sanhedrim — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
- sanhedrin — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
- schnapper — a food fish, Pagrosomus auratus, occurring in large numbers off the shores of Australia and New Zealand.
- schnauzer — one of a German breed of sturdy medium-sized dogs having a tight, wiry, pepper-and-salt or pure black coat, bristly eyebrows and beardlike whiskers, and a docked tail, used originally as a ratter and a guard dog and later used in police work.
- searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- senhorita — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.