9-letter words containing h, a, r
- hildegard — a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “battle” and “protector.”.
- hill farm — a farm in a high area, usually concentrating on sheep, because of the lack of winter fodder
- hillerman — Tony, 1925–2008, U.S. novelist and anthropologist.
- himyarite — one of an ancient people of southern Arabia speaking a Semitic language.
- hindbrain — the most posterior of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue, including the cerebellum, pons, and medulla oblongata; rhombencephalon.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- hippiater — (rare) A veterinarian specializing in horse care.
- hippiatry — the treatment of disease in horses
- hippocras — an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- hiroshima — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: first military use of atomic bomb August 6, 1945.
- hirudinea — the class comprising the leeches.
- hissarlik — the modern name of the site of ancient Troy.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- histogram — a graph of a frequency distribution in which rectangles with bases on the horizontal axis are given widths equal to the class intervals and heights equal to the corresponding frequencies.
- historian — an expert in history; authority on history.
- hitlerian — of or relating to Adolf Hitler or his regime
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hoarfrost — frost (def 2).
- hoarhound — an Old World plant, Marrubium vulgare, of the mint family, having downy leaves and small, whitish flowers, and containing a bitter, medicinal juice that is used as an expectorant, vermifuge, and laxative.
- hoariness — The characteristic of being hoary.
- hoarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of hoarsen.
- hoarstone — A stone designating the bounds of an estate; a landmark.
- hodiernal — (rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- hodograph — the figure described by the extremity of a vector that has a fixed origin and a position vector equal to the velocity of a moving particle.
- hogwaller — Alternative spelling of hog waller.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holarctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
- holderbat — a bracket that supports a pipe and fastens it to a wall or surface
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- holidayer — vacationer.
- hollander — John, 1929–2013, U.S. poet and critic.
- holloware — silver dishes, as serving dishes, having some depth (distinguished from flatware).
- holograms — Plural form of hologram.
- holograph — Also, holographic [hol-uh-graf-ik, hoh-luh-] /ˌhɒl əˈgræf ɪk, ˌhoʊ lə-/ (Show IPA), holographical. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
- 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.
- home care — a service provided by a local authority social services department to those whom it judges most need it
- home farm — (esp formerly) a farm belonging to and providing food for a large country house
- home-care — of, relating to, or designating care, especially medical care, given or received at home: a member of the hospital's home-care staff.
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- homemaker — a person who manages the household of his or her own family, especially as a principal occupation.
- homer lea — Homer, 1876–1912, U.S. soldier and author: adviser 1911–12 to Sun Yat-sen in China.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- homiliary — a collection of homilies.
- homograft — allograft.
- homograph — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- homophora — A reference that requires some type of general knowledge to understand.