9-letter words containing h, a, r
- maksoorah — (in a mosque) a screen or partition enclosing an area for prayer or a tomb.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- man-hater — someone, esp a woman, who dislikes or hates men
- manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- manhelper — a long pole for holding a paintbrush, used in painting areas otherwise out of ordinary reach.
- manhunter — an intensive search for a criminal, suspect, escaped convict, etc., as by law enforcement agencies.
- maranatha — a curse or exclamation
- marathons — Plural form of marathon.
- march fly — any of several flies of the family Bibionidae that appear during spring and early summer.
- marchland — borderland.
- marchlike — (music) Resembling a march.
- marchpane — marzipan.
- mariachis — Plural form of mariachi.
- mariehamn — a seaport on S Åland Island, in the Baltic.
- marigraph — a device that automatically registers the rise and fall of the tide.
- marihuana — hemp (def 1).
- markevich — Igor [ee-guh r] /ˈi gər/ (Show IPA), 1912–83, Russian conductor and composer.
- marrakech — a city in W Morocco.
- marrakesh — a city in W Morocco.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- marsh gas — a gaseous decomposition product of organic matter, consisting primarily of methane.
- marsh hen — any of various rails or raillike birds.
- marsh tit — a small European songbird, Parus palustris, with a black head and greyish-brown body: family Paridae (tits)
- marshaled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshaler — (computing) A mechanism for marshalling data.
- marshalls — Plural form of marshall.
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- marshland — a region, area, or district characterized by marshes, swamps, bogs, or the like.
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- marshwort — A small, white-flowered plant, of the genus Apium, that grows in marshy habitats.
- martyrish — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- mata hari — (Gertrud Margarete Zelle) 1876–1917, Dutch dancer in France: executed as a spy by the French.
- matchgirl — A girl who sold matches on the streets.
- matchmark — a mark made on mating components of an engine, machine, etc, to ensure that the components are assembled in the correct relative positions
- mathworks — The MathWorks, Inc.
- matriarch — the female head of a family or tribal line.
- mayorship — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- megahertz — a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second. Abbreviation: MHz.
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- megathere — any of the huge, slothlike animals of the extinct genus Megatherium, or closely related genera, that lived from the Oligocene to the Pleistocene epochs.
- megatherm — a plant requiring a constant high temperature and abundant moisture for growth.
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- menorrhea — menstrual flow.
- merchants — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- merneptah — king of ancient Egypt c1225–c1215 b.c. (son of Ramses II).
- metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
- metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- mindshare — Relative public awareness of a phenomenon.