9-letter words containing h, a, t, r, i
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- marsh tit — a small European songbird, Parus palustris, with a black head and greyish-brown body: family Paridae (tits)
- 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.
- matriarch — the female head of a family or tribal line.
- miryachit — A disorder found in Siberia, characterized by a jumping motion.
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- mithraeum — a temple of Mithras.
- mithraism — an ancient Persian religion in which Mithras was worshiped, involving secret rituals to which only men were admitted: a major competitor of Christianity in the Roman empire during the 2nd and 3rd centuries a.d.
- naughtier — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
- nightgear — nightclothes, that which is worn at night
- nightjars — Plural form of nightjar.
- nightmare — a terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of helplessness, extreme anxiety, sorrow, etc.
- nightmary — (of a person) prone to having nightmares
- nightward — heading towards night, heading westwards
- nightwear — night clothes.
- orthoaxis — the axis in a crystal
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- parathion — a deep-brown to yellow, poisonous liquid, C 1 0 H 1 4 NO 5 PS, used as an insecticide.
- part with — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- parthenia — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- parthians — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
- patriarch — the male head of a family or tribal line.
- phanerite — any igneous rock whose grains are visible to the naked eye.
- physiatry — physical medicine.
- pie chart — a graphic representation of quantitative information by means of a circle divided into sectors, in which the relative sizes of the areas (or central angles) of the sectors correspond to the relative sizes or proportions of the quantities.
- printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
- radiothon — an on-the-air radio campaign, often lasting 24 hours or more, designed to raise money for a radio station, charity, the arts, etc., as from listeners phoning in and pledging specific donations, sometimes in exchange for gifts or premiums.
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- ratherish — fairly, moderately
- rechabite — a total abstainer from alcoholic drink, esp a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a society devoted to abstention
- reheating — heating again.
- reichsrat — German History. the upper house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- reichstag — the lower house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- reinhabit — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- reinhardt — Jean Baptiste [French zhahn ba-teest] /French ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), ("Django") 1910–53, Belgian gypsy jazz guitarist.
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- rhathymia — carefree behavior; light-heartedness.
- rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
- rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rhipidate — shaped like a fan
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- rhotacize — to change (a sound) to an (r); subject to rhotacism.
- right-way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
- rightable — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- rightward — Also, rightwards. toward or on the right.
- root hair — an elongated tubular extension of an epidermal cell of a root, serving to absorb water and minerals from the soil.
- ruthenian — Also, Ruthene [roo-theen] /ruˈθin/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the inhabitants of Ruthenia, Galicia, and neighboring regions.