9-letter words containing h, a, r, y
- labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
- lachrymal — of or relating to tears.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- lightyear — Alternative spelling of light year.
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- march fly — any of several flies of the family Bibionidae that appear during spring and early summer.
- martyrish — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- mayorship — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- miryachit — A disorder found in Siberia, characterized by a jumping motion.
- myatrophy — myoatrophy.
- myographs — Plural form of myograph.
- myomorpha — A major division of the rodents that includes the rats, mice, voles, hamsters, and their relatives.
- mythmaker — a creator of myths.
- nasiriyah — a city in S Iraq, on the River Euphrates; agricultural and trading centre. Pop: 425 000 (2005 est)
- nightmary — (of a person) prone to having nightmares
- north bay — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- old harry — Older Use. the devil; Satan.
- oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
- orography — the branch of physical geography dealing with mountains.
- orthogamy — (botany) fertilization of the ovules of a plant by pollen from the same plant.
- overhappy — too happy
- overhasty — excessively hasty; rash: overhasty judgment.
- pachyderm — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- paranymph — a groomsman or a bridesmaid.
- pararhyme — a part-rhyme in which the consonants are the same but the vowels are different
- parchedly — in a parched manner
- parhypate — a note in ancient Greek music, the second lowest note in the two lowest tetrachords
- party hat — a hat, often made of paper, worn at a party
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- pharyngo- — pharynx
- phonatory — rapid, periodic opening and closing of the glottis through separation and apposition of the vocal cords that, accompanied by breath under lung pressure, constitutes a source of vocal sound.
- phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- phylarchy — a government led by a phylarch
- physiatry — physical medicine.
- phytosaur — any armored, semiaquatic reptile of the extinct order Phytosauria, of the Mesozoic Era, resembling the crocodile but unrelated, having the nostrils high on the snout and with well-developed hind limbs suggestive of bipedal ancestors.
- polyarchy — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- porphyria — a defect of blood pigment metabolism in which porphyrins are produced in excess, are present in the blood, and are found in the urine.
- pothecary — apothecary.
- preachify — to preach in an obtrusive or tedious way.
- preachily — in a preachy fashion
- prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- pyorrhoea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
- pyothorax — empyema.
- pyracanth — a thorny evergreen shrub of the genus Pyracantha, related to the hawthorn
- pyrograph — an object ornamented by pyrography.
- qadariyah — the group who defended free will against the doctrine of predestination.
- qadiriyah — a Sufi fraternity founded by ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Jilani (1077–1166) in the 12th century.
- rakehelly — of, resembling, or characteristic of a rakehell; profligate