9-letter words containing h, o, r, a, y
- acropathy — any disease of the extremities.
- acrophony — the use of symbols to represent sounds
- adhocracy — management that responds to urgent problems rather than planning to avoid them
- aerophyte — epiphyte.
- airworthy — If an aircraft is airworthy, it is safe to fly.
- amphigory — a piece of nonsensical writing in verse or, less commonly, prose
- anachrony — a discrepancy between the order of events in a story and the order in which they are presented in the plot: Anachronies are either flashbacks or flashforwards.
- anhydrous — containing no water, esp no water of crystallization
- apocrypha — the 14 books included as an appendix to the Old Testament in the Septuagint and the Vulgate but not included in the Hebrew canon. They are not printed in Protestant versions of the Bible
- apomorphy — (systematics): A derived characteristic of a clade. Any feature novel to a species and its descendants.
- archology — the study of the origins of things
- athrocyte — a cell that is able to receive and store matter
- authority — The authorities are the people who have the power to make decisions and to make sure that laws are obeyed.
- bay shore — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- body hair — hair that grows on the body as opposed to the head or face
- charcoaly — resembling charcoal
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
- chirimoya — cherimoya.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- cry havoc — to give the signal for pillage and destruction
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- fairyhood — a fairy nature or state: the fairyhood of Puck.
- foolhardy — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- forsythia — a shrub belonging to the genus Forsythia, of the olive family, native to China and southeastern Europe, species of which are cultivated for their showy yellow flowers, which blossom on the bare branches in early spring.
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- grayhound — one of a breed of tall, slender, short-haired dogs, noted for its keen sight and swiftness.
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hard copy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hawthorny — resembling or characterized by hawthorns
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- holidayer — vacationer.
- holy mary — Christianity: mother of Jesus
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- holy year — a jubilee year.
- homiliary — a collection of homilies.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- honorably — in accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright: They were all honorable men.
- honourary — Misspelling of honorary.
- hooraying — Present participle of hooray.
- hornyhead — species of fish
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hortatory — urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech.
- humorally — in a humoral manner or from a humoral point of view
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