9-letter words containing h, e, a, r
- hammering — The sound or action of hammering something.
- hammerkop — A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the Scopidae family and related to the herons.
- hammerman — A hammerer; a forgeman.
- hammertoe — a clawlike deformity of a toe, usually the second or third, in which there is a permanent flexion of the second and third joints.
- hampering — to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- hampshire — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- han river — a dynasty in China, 206 b.c.–a.d. 220, with an interregnum, a.d. 9–25: characterized by consolidation of the centralized imperial state and territorial expansion. Compare Earlier Han, Later Han.
- hand over — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-rear — (of a person) to keep and look after (a young animal or bird) in place of its mother, until it is old enough to be used for work or food, or until it can look after itself
- hand-ride — to ride (a horse) in a race without using a whip or spurs, urging it on with only the hands.
- handbrake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- handlebar — Usually, handlebars. the curved steering bar of a bicycle, motorcycle, etc., placed in front of the rider and gripped by the hands. handlebar moustache.
- handovers — Plural form of handover.
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- 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.
- handwrite — to write (something) by hand.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 case — a tough person not swayed by sentiment
- hard core — pornography: obscene
- hard doer — a tough worker at anything
- 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.
- hard lens — a contact lens of rigid plastic or silicon, exerting light pressure on the cornea of the eye, used for correcting various vision problems including astigmatism.
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- hard news — serious news of widespread import, concerning politics, foreign affairs, or the like, as distinguished from routine news items, feature stories, or human-interest stories.
- hard sell — aggressive sales
- hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- hard-case — rough and hard-bitten: hard-case juvenile delinquents.
- hard-core — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hard-edge — of, relating to, or characteristic of a style of abstract painting associated with the 1960s and marked chiefly by sharply outlined geometric or nongeometric forms.
- hard-line — adhering rigidly to a dogma, theory, or plan; uncompromising or unyielding: hard-line union demands.