9-letter words containing h, a, r, y
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hansberry — Lorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.
- hard copy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- harmfully — In a harmful manner.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- hawthorny — resembling or characterized by hawthorns
- hay fever — a type of allergic rhinitis affecting the mucous membranes of the eyes and respiratory tract, affecting susceptible persons usually during the summer, caused by pollen of ragweed and certain other plants.
- haymakers — Plural form of haymaker.
- haymarket — a famous London market 1644–1830.
- heartedly — having a specified kind of heart (now used only in combination): hardhearted; sad-hearted.
- heathenry — The state of being heathen.
- hemelytra — one of the forewings of a true bug, having a hard, thick basal portion and a thinner, membranous apex.
- hen party — a party or gathering for women only.
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- heritably — In a heritable manner.
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- heyerdahl — Thor [too r] /tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1914–2002, Norwegian ethnologist and author.
- hierarchy — any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
- himyarite — one of an ancient people of southern Arabia speaking a Semitic language.
- hippiatry — the treatment of disease in horses
- holidayer — vacationer.
- holy mary — Christianity: mother of Jesus
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- holy year — a jubilee year.
- homiliary — a collection of homilies.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- honourary — Misspelling of honorary.
- hooraying — Present participle of hooray.
- hornyhead — species of fish
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hortatory — urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech.
- humorally — in a humoral manner or from a humoral point of view
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hyalomere — the transparent part of a blood platelet, surrounding the chromomere.
- hybernate — Obsolete spelling of hibernate.
- hybridoma — a hybrid cell made in the laboratory by fusing a normal cell with a cancer cell, usually a myeloma or lymphoma, in order to combine desired features of each, as the ability of the cancer cell to multiply rapidly with the ability of the normal cell to dictate the production of a specific antibody.
- hyde park — a public park in London, England.
- hyder ali — 1722–82, Islamic prince and military leader of India: ruler of Mysore 1759–82.
- hyderabad — a state in SE India, formed from portions of Chennai and Hyderabad states 1956. 105,963 sq. mi. (274,444 sq. km). Capital: Hyderabad.
- hydracids — Plural form of hydracid.
- hydraemia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hydramide — (organic compound) One of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes.
- hydramine — an amine derived from a glycol in which one hydroxyl is replaced by an amino group.
- hydrangea — any shrub belonging to the genus Hydrangea, of the saxifrage family, several species of which are cultivated for their large, showy flower clusters of white, pink, or blue.
- hydranths — Plural form of hydranth.
- hydrastis — goldenseal (def 2).