9-letter words containing h, e, r
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- drawshave — drawknife.
- drawsheet — a narrow sheet, often used on hospital beds, placed under a patient's buttocks and often over a rubber sheet, that can easily be removed if soiled.
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dreamhole — a light-admitting hole in a tower
- drenching — to wet thoroughly; soak.
- drillhole — a hole drilled in the ground, usually for exploratory purposes
- droshkies — Plural form of droshky.
- drumheads — Plural form of drumhead.
- eachother — (nonstandard) misspelling of each other Typically used in the context of
- eachwhere — all over or in every place
- ear shell — abalone.
- earphones — (countable) Plural form of earphone.
- earth 2.0 — a planet whose size and atmospheric conditions resemble those of the Earth
- earth art — the artistic genre consisting of earthworks.
- earth day — environmental awareness day
- earth-god — a god of fertility and vegetation.
- earthborn — born on or sprung from the earth; of earthly origin.
- earthfall — a fall of earth or a landslide
- earthfast — relating to a method of building or to buildings that have no foundations but are supported by posts knocked into the ground
- earthlike — Of a planet, resembling the Earth.
- earthling — an inhabitant of earth; mortal.
- earthrise — the rising of the earth above the horizon of the moon or other celestial body, viewed from that body's surface or from a spacecraft orbiting it.
- earthstar — a fungus of the genus Geaster, having an outer covering that splits into the form of a star.
- earthward — Also, earthwards. toward the earth.
- earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
- earthworm — any one of numerous annelid worms that burrow in soil and feed on soil nutrients and decaying organic matter.
- echegaray — José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), (José Echegaray y Eizaguirre) 1832–1916, Spanish dramatist and statesman: Nobel Prize 1904.
- echeveria — any of numerous succulent plants of the genus Echeveria, native to tropical America and having thick leaves characteristically forming rosettes.
- echiuroid — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Echiuroidea, found in sand and mud of tropical and subtropical seas, having at the mouth a ciliated, often elongated prostomium.
- echo word — a word that is echoic (sense 2), or onomatopoeic
- echograph — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
- echovirus — any of numerous retroviruses of the picornavirus group, some harmless and others associated with various human disorders, as aseptic meningitis.
- ecohazard — any substance or activity that poses a threat to a habitat or an environment: Off-the-road motorcycling is an ecohazard to fragile desert habitats.
- ecosphere — Also called physiological atmosphere. the part of the atmosphere in which it is possible to breathe normally without aid: the portion of the troposphere from sea level to an altitude of about 13,000 feet (4000 meters).
- ectomorph — a person of the ectomorphic type.
- ectotherm — a cold-blooded animal.
- edgeworth — Maria, 1767–1849, English novelist.
- edinburgh — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- ehrenburg — Ilya Grigorievich (iljˈja ɡriˈɡɔrjɪvitʃ). 1891–1967, Soviet novelist and journalist. His novel The Thaw (1954) was the first published in the Soviet Union to deal with repression under Stalin
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- einherjar — (Norse mythology) the undead spirits of warriors who died bravely in battle, brought to Valhalla by the valkyries, where they eternally feast and prepare daily for the inevitable events of Ragnarok.
- either-or — presenting an unavoidable need to choose between two alternatives
- ekphrasis — (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.
- eldership — Seniority; the state or condition of being older.
- eleutheri — a fictitious secret society of free thinkers
- eleuthero — (informal) The shrub Eleutherococcus senticosus, used in traditional medicine.
- ellsworth — Lincoln1880-1951; U.S. polar explorer
- elsewhere — In, at, or to some other place or other places.
- embreathe — to breathe in (air)