9-letter words containing h, e, d, r
- philander — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- phonecard — calling card (def 3).
- potholder — a thick piece of material, as a quilted or woven pad, used in handling hot pots and dishes.
- pre-death — the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. Compare brain death.
- prehandle — to handle beforehand
- preharden — to harden beforehand
- preshaped — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- prewashed — being washed before sale, especially to produce a soft texture or a worn look: prewashed blue jeans.
- printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- ratcheted — a toothed bar with which a pawl engages.
- reach rod — a rod for operating a remote piece of machinery, as a valve.
- read head — a part of a recording device that senses data on a carrier medium such as a disk or tape
- red birch — river birch.
- red chalk — a clayey ochre containing iron, used by painters
- red china — China, People's Republic of.
- red earth — a clayey zonal soil of tropical savanna lands, formed by extensive chemical weathering, coloured by iron compounds, and less strongly leached than laterite
- red flash — a red coloration of the lower portion of the sun, occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks to the horizon.
- red heart — a treelike Californian shrub, Ceanothus spinosus, of the buckthorn family, having pale blue or white flowers.
- red light — traffic light indicating stop
- red ocher — any of the red natural earths, mixtures of hematite, that are used as pigments.
- red ochre — any of various natural red earths containing ferric oxide: used as pigments
- red shank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- red shift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- red-light — Informal. to stop or deter by means of or as if with a red light.
- red-short — brittle when at red heat, as iron or steel containing too much sulfur.
- redheaded — A redheaded person is a person whose hair is between red and brown in color.
- refreshed — to provide new vigor and energy by rest, food, etc. (often used reflexively).
- rehydrate — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
- reinhardt — Jean Baptiste [French zhahn ba-teest] /French ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), ("Django") 1910–53, Belgian gypsy jazz guitarist.
- remscheid — a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr region.
- reprehend — to reprove or find fault with; rebuke; censure; blame.
- reshipped — to ship again.
- resighted — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- rethondes — a village in N France near Compiègne: armistice ending World War I signed here 1918.
- rheingold — See The Ring of the Nibelung.
- rheinland — Rhineland.
- rheochord — a wire inserted into an electrical circuit to vary or regulate the current
- rhineland — that part of Germany W of the Rhine.
- rhipidate — shaped like a fan
- rhodamine — a red dye obtained by heating an alkyl aminophenol with phthalic anhydride.
- rhodanate — a salt of thiocyanic acid
- rhodanize — to plate with rhodium
- rhodesian — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- rhodesoid — relating to or resembling Rhodesian man
- rhodolite — a rose or reddish-violet garnet, similar to pyrope, used as a gem.
- rhodonite — a mineral, manganese metasilicate, MnSiO 3 , occurring usually in rose-red masses, sometimes used as an ornamental stone; manganese spar.
- rhoeadine — a chemical compound found in the red poppy which has similar effects to those of opium
- rhytidome — the outer bark of a tree or plant
- richfield — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.