9-letter words containing h, a, r, u
- brushmark — the indented lines sometimes left by the bristles of a brush on a painted surface
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- cantharus — a large two-handled pottery cup
- cardpunch — a device, no longer widely used, controlled by a computer, for transferring information from the central processing unit onto punched cards
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- cauchemar — a nightmare
- chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
- chardzhou — a city in E Turkmenistan, on the Amu Darya.
- charge up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- chargeful — onerous; expensive
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- charmeuse — a lightweight fabric with a satin-like finish
- chartreux — a breed of sturdy cat with short dense woolly fur
- chartulae — charta (def 2).
- chasseurs — Plural form of chasseur.
- chauffeur — The chauffeur of a rich or important person is the man or woman who is employed to look after their car and drive them around in it.
- chaussure — a term for any type of footwear
- chermoula — a marinade used in N African cookery
- churchman — A churchman is the same as a clergyman.
- churchway — a road that leads to a church
- churidars — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
- churrasco — meat cooked over an open fire.
- clearchus — died 401? b.c.; Spartan general
- co durham — County Durham
- co-author — The co-authors of a book, play, or report are the people who have written it together.
- coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
- cranreuch — a hoarfrost
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crush bar — a bar at a theatre for serving drinks during the intervals of a play
- crushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
- cucaracha — a cockroach
- curlyhead — a person whose hair is curly.
- cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
- dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- debaucher — to corrupt by sensuality, intemperance, etc.; seduce.
- dehra dun — a city in N India, the capital of Uttarakhand (formerly Uttaranchal): Indian military academy (1932). Pop: 447 808 (2001)
- drag hunt — drag (def 27c).
- draghound — a hound for use in following a hunting drag, specifically bred for speed and stamina rather than subtlety of sense of smell.
- draughted — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughter — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- drumheads — Plural form of drumhead.
- eucharist — The Eucharist is the Christian religious ceremony in which Christ's last meal with his disciples is celebrated by eating bread and drinking wine.
- eucryphia — any tree or shrub of the mostly evergreen genus Eucryphia, native to Australia and S America, having leaves of a dark lustrous green and white flowers: family Eucryphiaceae
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- euphrasia — eyebright