9-letter words containing h, a, r
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- handprint — an impression or mark made with the palm and fingers on a surface.
- handrails — Plural form of handrail.
- handsfree — not requiring the use of the hands: handsfree telephone dialing by voice commands.
- handsomer — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handsturn — an amount of work or the period of time spent doing a piece of work
- handwrite — to write (something) by hand.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hang fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- hang over — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hangaring — a shed or shelter.
- hanger-on — a person who remains in a place or attaches himself or herself to a group, another person, etc., although not wanted, especially in the hope or expectation of personal gain.
- hangerson — a person who remains in a place or attaches himself or herself to a group, another person, etc., although not wanted, especially in the hope or expectation of personal gain.
- hangovers — Plural form of hangover.
- hankerers — Plural form of hankerer.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- hansberry — Lorraine, 1930–65, U.S. playwright.
- haphazard — characterized by lack of order or planning, by irregularity, or by randomness; determined by or dependent on chance; aimless.
- haphtarah — Haftarah.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- hara-kiri — Also called seppuku. ceremonial suicide by ripping open the abdomen with a dagger or knife: formerly practiced in Japan by members of the warrior class when disgraced or sentenced to death.
- haramzada — a male born of unmarried parents
- haramzadi — a female born of unmarried parents
- harangued — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- haranguer — One who harangues.
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- harassers — Plural form of harasser.
- harassing — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
- harborage — shelter for vessels, as that provided by a harbor.
- harborers — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harboring — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harborous — welcoming and offering hospitality
- harboured — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- harbourer — A person who harbours another.
- hard boot — (operating system) A boot which resets the entire system. The phrase has connations of hostility toward, or frustration with, the computer being booted. For example, "I'll have to hard boot this losing Sun", or "I recommend booting it hard". Hard boots are often performed with a power cycle. Contrast soft boot. See also cold boot and reboot
- hard card — a card or device which fits into a computer's expansion slot, with the purpose of increasing memory, graphics capacity, etc
- hard case — a tough person not swayed by sentiment
- hard cash — actual money as distinguished from checks or credit.
- hard clam — a quahog.
- hard coal — anthracite.
- hard copy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hard core — pornography: obscene
- hard disk — magnetic disk (def 1).
- hard doer — a tough worker at anything
- hard drug — an addicting drug capable of producing severe physical or psychological dependence, as heroin.
- hard fern — a common tufted erect fern of the polypody family, Blechnum spicant, having dark-green lanceolate leaves: it prefers acid soils, and in the US is sometimes grown as deer feed
- hard head — semirefined tin containing iron.
- hard left — You use hard left to describe those members of a left wing political group or party who have the most extreme political beliefs.