9-letter words containing h, o, r, e
- authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorize — If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
- bachelors — Plural form of bachelor.
- bachelour — Obsolete form of bachelor.
- backshore — the area of a beach above the usual high tide mark
- barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- batchelor — (British) alternative spelling of bachelor.
- bathrobes — Plural form of bathrobe.
- bay shore — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- be mother — to pour the tea
- beachgoer — a person who goes to the beach, esp frequently
- beerhouse — an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.
- behaviors — manner of behaving or acting.
- behaviour — People's or animals' behaviour is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behaviour.
- berthelot — Pierre Eugène Marselin [marsuh-lan] /mærsəˈlɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1827–1907, French chemist.
- betrothal — A betrothal is an agreement to be married.
- betrothed — If you are betrothed to someone, you have agreed to marry them.
- biohermal — a carbonate rock formation, in the form of an ancient reef or hummock, consisting of the fossilized remains of corals, algae, mollusks, and other sedentary marine life, and commonly surrounded by rock of a different lithology.
- biosphere — The biosphere is the part of the earth's surface and atmosphere where there are living things.
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- borghetto — (in Italy) a settlement outside a city's walls
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- bowhunter — a person who hunts with a bow
- box-fresh — unused or unspoiled; straight from the packaging
- boxholder — a person who has rented or subscribed for a box, as at a theatrical performance, sporting event, or the like.
- brewhouse — a brewery
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- broachers — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- broadhead — a flat, triangular, steel arrowhead with sharp edges.
- brochette — a skewer or small spit, used for holding pieces of meat, etc, while roasting or grilling
- brood hen — a hen kept for breeding
- brotherly — A man's brotherly feelings are feelings of love and loyalty which you expect a brother to show.
- bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- care home — A care home is a large house or institution where people with particular problems or special needs are looked after.
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- cerecloth — waxed waterproof cloth of a kind formerly used as a shroud
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- chaeronea — an ancient Greek town in W Boeotia: site of the victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians and Thebans (338 bc) and of Sulla over Mithridates (86 bc)