9-letter words containing h, i
- architect — An architect is a person who designs buildings.
- archiving — Usually, archives. documents or records relating to the activities, business dealings, etc., of a person, family, corporation, association, community, or nation.
- archivist — An archivist is a person whose job is to collect, sort, and care for historical documents and records.
- archivolt — a moulding around an arch, sometimes decorated
- archontic — relating to an archon
- archrival — a chief rival
- arhatship — the state of having achieved enlightenment, which is the ultimate goal of Theravada Buddhists
- arhythmia — arrhythmia.
- arhythmic — Having no rhythm.
- arimathea — a town in ancient Palestine: location unknown
- aristarch — a severe critic.
- arkwright — Sir Richard. 1732–92, English cotton manufacturer: inventor of the spinning frame (1769) which produced cotton thread strong enough to be used as a warp
- armchairs — Plural form of armchair.
- arrhenius — Svante August (ˈsvantə ˈauɡʊst). 1859–1927, Swedish chemist and physicist, noted for his work on the theory of electrolytic dissociation: Nobel prize for chemistry 1903
- arthritic — Arthritic is used to describe the condition, the pain, or the symptoms of arthritis.
- arthritis — Arthritis is a medical condition in which the joints in someone's body are swollen and painful.
- arthrodia — a joint
- 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.
- asahigawa — a city on W central Hokkaido, in N Japan.
- asahikawa — city in central Hokkaido, Japan: pop. 360,000
- asheville — city in W N.C.: pop. 69,000
- ashkenazi — of or relating to the Jews of Germany and E Europe
- ashlaring — ashlars collectively
- ashramite — a person who lives in an ashram or place of rest or contemplation
- asphaltic — Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt; bituminous.
- asphyxial — the extreme condition caused by lack of oxygen and excess of carbon dioxide in the blood, produced by interference with respiration or insufficient oxygen in the air; suffocation.
- asthmatic — People who suffer from asthma are sometimes referred to as asthmatics.
- astichous — having a structure or layout that is not in rows
- athanasia — deathlessness; immortality.
- atheistic — Atheistic means connected with or holding the belief that there is no God.
- athelings — Plural form of atheling.
- athematic — not based on themes
- athenians — Plural form of Athenian.
- atherosis — (pathology) atheroma.
- athetesis — the dismissal of a text as not genuine
- athetosic — relating to or characterized by athetosis
- athetosis — a condition characterized by uncontrolled rhythmic writhing movement, esp of fingers, hands, head, and tongue, caused by cerebral lesion
- athletics — Athletics refers to track and field sports such as running, the high jump, and the javelin.
- athletism — The state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete.
- atmophile — (of a chemical element in the earth) having an affinity for the atmosphere, as neon or helium.
- 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.
- attaching — to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
- audiphone — a type of hearing aid consisting of a diaphragm that, when placed against the upper teeth, conveys sound vibrations to the inner ear
- aughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- auschwitz — an industrial town in S Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Pop: 40 686 (2007 est)
- ausgleich — the agreement (1867) that established the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary