9-letter words containing h, s, t, r
- brightish — fairly bright
- britisher — In American English or old-fashioned British English, British people are sometimes informally referred to as Britishers.
- britishes — of or relating to Great Britain or its inhabitants.
- brush cut — crew cut
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- butcher's — a look
- buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
- by rights — If something is not the case but you think that it should be, you can say that by rights it should be the case.
- campshirt — a loose, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with an open collar
- cantharis — Spanish fly (sense 1)
- cantharus — a large two-handled pottery cup
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- catharise — purify
- catharses — Plural form of catharsis.
- catharsis — Catharsis is getting rid of unhappy memories or strong emotions such as anger or sadness by expressing them in some way.
- catheters — Plural form of catheter.
- chantress — a female chanter or singer
- chantries — Plural form of chantry.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- charities — Plural form of charity.
- charoseth — haroseth.
- charteris — Leslie, original name Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin. 1907–93, British novelist, born in Singapore: created the character Simon Templar, known as The Saint, the central character in many adventure novels
- chartings — Plural form of charting.
- chartists — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.
- chartless — not mapped; uncharted
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chastener — to inflict suffering upon for purposes of moral improvement; chastise.
- chastiser — Someone who chastises.
- chatrooms — Plural form of chatroom.
- cheeriest — Superlative form of cheery.
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- chemistry — Chemistry is the scientific study of the structure of substances and of the way that they react with other substances.
- chesstree — (in the 17th and 18th centuries) a wooden fastening with one or more sheaves, attached to the topside of a sailing vessel, through which the windward tack of a course was rove.
- chin rest — a device fixed to the top of a violin or viola to provide a firm rest for the player's chin.
- chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- chlorites — Plural form of chlorite.
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.
- christens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of christen.
- christian — A Christian is someone who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ.
- christina — 1626–89, queen of Sweden (1632–54), daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, noted particularly for her patronage of literature
- christine — a feminine name: dim. Chris, Chrissie, Tina; var. Christina, Christy
- christmas — Christmas is a Christian festival when the birth of Jesus Christ is celebrated. Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December.
- christoff — Boris. 1919–93, Bulgarian bass-baritone, noted esp for his performance in the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov