9-letter words containing h, a, r
- arthroses — Plural form of arthrosis.
- arthrosis — a bone joint which enables movement
- arthurian — of or relating to King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table
- artichoke — Artichokes or globe artichokes are round green vegetables that have fleshy leaves arranged like the petals of a flower.
- ash color — ash gray.
- ashburton — 1st Baron, Baring, Alexander.
- ashlaring — ashlars collectively
- ashramite — a person who lives in an ashram or place of rest or contemplation
- ashtoreth — an ancient Semitic fertility goddess, identified with Astarte and Ishtar
- asphalter — a person who spreads a layer of asphalt
- astrachan — a fur of young lambs, with lustrous, closely curled wool, from Astrakhan.
- astrakhan — Astrakhan is black or grey curly fur from the skins of lambs. It is used for making coats and hats.
- at anchor — If a boat is at anchor, it is floating in a particular place and is prevented from moving by its anchor.
- at hazard — at risk; in danger
- atheromas — Plural form of atheroma.
- atherosis — (pathology) atheroma.
- athrocyte — a cell that is able to receive and store matter
- atrahasis — a legendary Akkadian sage who built a boat in which he and his family, servants, and chattels escaped the Deluge.
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attrahens — (of muscle) drawing or pulling towards
- attrahent — attracting or drawing in
- autarchic — absolute sovereignty.
- authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
- authorial — Authorial means relating to the author of something such as a book or play.
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorish — like or similar to an author
- authorism — the state or condition of being author
- authority — The authorities are the people who have the power to make decisions and to make sure that laws are obeyed.
- authorize — If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
- autograph — An autograph is the signature of someone famous which is specially written for a fan to keep.
- autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
- auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
- azedarach — the astringent bark of the chinaberry tree, formerly used as an emetic and cathartic
- azederach — Alternative spelling of azedarach.
- bacharach — Burt. born 1928, US composer of popular songs, usually with lyricist Hal David
- bachelors — Plural form of bachelor.
- bachelour — Obsolete form of bachelor.
- backshore — the area of a beach above the usual high tide mark
- bahuvrihi — a class of compound words consisting of two elements the first of which is a specific feature of the second
- bakhtaran — city in W Iran: pop. 561,000
- balthazar — a wine bottle holding the equivalent of sixteen normal bottles (approximately 12 litres)
- bankerish — resembling or befitting a banker, especially in being perceived as reserved and conservative in dress and demeanor: a model of bankerish decorum.
- bar chart — A bar chart is a graph which uses parallel rectangular shapes to represent changes in the size, value, or rate of something or to compare the amount of something relating to a number of different countries or groups.
- bar chord — a musical chord that is played on a stringed instrument using the barré technique.
- bar ditch — a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes.
- bar graph — A bar graph is the same as a bar chart.
- barachois — (in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada) a shallow lagoon formed by a sand bar
- barathrum — any deep abyss