9-letter words containing h, a, r, t
- at anchor — If a boat is at anchor, it is floating in a particular place and is prevented from moving by its anchor.
- at hazard — at risk; in danger
- atheromas — Plural form of atheroma.
- atherosis — (pathology) atheroma.
- athrocyte — a cell that is able to receive and store matter
- atrahasis — a legendary Akkadian sage who built a boat in which he and his family, servants, and chattels escaped the Deluge.
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attrahens — (of muscle) drawing or pulling towards
- attrahent — attracting or drawing in
- autarchic — absolute sovereignty.
- authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
- authorial — Authorial means relating to the author of something such as a book or play.
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorish — like or similar to an author
- authorism — the state or condition of being author
- authority — The authorities are the people who have the power to make decisions and to make sure that laws are obeyed.
- authorize — If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
- autograph — An autograph is the signature of someone famous which is specially written for a fan to keep.
- autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
- auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
- bakhtaran — city in W Iran: pop. 561,000
- balthazar — a wine bottle holding the equivalent of sixteen normal bottles (approximately 12 litres)
- bar chart — A bar chart is a graph which uses parallel rectangular shapes to represent changes in the size, value, or rate of something or to compare the amount of something relating to a number of different countries or groups.
- bar ditch — a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes.
- barathrum — any deep abyss
- barkcloth — Cloth made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry or similar tree.
- barthelme — Donald, 1931–89, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
- bartholdi — Frédéric August. 1834–1904, French sculptor and architect, who designed (1884) the Statue of Liberty
- batchelor — (British) alternative spelling of bachelor.
- bathrobes — Plural form of bathrobe.
- bathrooms — Plural form of bathroom.
- bathwater — water in which a person bathes
- batrachia — amphibians, including frogs and toads, which have gills and a tail in their larval state, which are discarded later in life
- bear with — If you ask someone to bear with you, you are asking them to be patient.
- bernhardt — Sarah. original name Rosine Bernard. 1844–1923, French actress, regarded as one of the greatest tragic actresses of all time
- betrothal — A betrothal is an agreement to be married.
- bhaktapur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- bharatiya — of or relating to India
- birdwatch — to watch birds
- birthdate — Your birthdate is the same as your date of birth.
- birthmark — A birthmark is a mark on someone's skin that has been there since they were born.
- birthname — a name given at birth
- birthrate — the number of births per year per thousand of population in a given community, area, or group: sometimes other units of time or population are used
- blatherer — someone who blathers
- bohr atom — See under Bohr theory.
- brachiate — having widely divergent paired branches
- branchlet — a small branch
- brandreth — a gridiron, iron trivet, or tripod