9-letter words containing h
- anschluss — a political or economic union, esp the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany (1938)
- answereth — Archaic third-person singular form of answer.
- antechoir — the part of a church in front of the choir, usually enclosed by screens, tombs, etc
- anteporch — an outer porch.
- anthelion — a faint halo sometimes seen in polar or high altitude regions around the shadow of an object cast onto a thick cloud bank or fog
- anthemion — a floral design, used esp in ancient Greek and Roman architecture and decoration, usually consisting of honeysuckle, lotus, or palmette leaf motifs
- anthocarp — a composite false fruit, consisting of the actual fruit and the perianth
- anthodium — the flower head or bracts of a composite plant, as in daisies or asters
- anthology — An anthology is a collection of writings by different writers published together in one book.
- anthotaxy — the arrangement of flowers on a stem or parts on a flower
- anthozoan — any of the solitary or colonial sessile marine coelenterates of the class Anthozoa, including the corals, sea anemones, and sea pens, in which the body is in the form of a polyp
- anthozoic — relating to anthozoans
- anthracic — relating to anthrax
- anthropic — of or relating to human beings
- anthropo- — indicating man or human
- anthropod — Misspelling of arthropod.
- anthurium — any of various tropical American aroid plants constituting the genus Anthurium, many of which are cultivated as house plants for their showy foliage and their flowers, which are borne in a long-stalked spike surrounded by a flaring heart-shaped white or red bract
- anti-hero — An anti-hero is the main character in a novel, play, or film who is not morally good and does not behave like a typical hero.
- antichain — (mathematics) A subset S of a partially ordered set P is an antichain if, for all x, y in S, x <= y => x = y I.e. no two different elements are related. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq).
- antichild — Opposing children.
- antichlor — a substance used to remove chlorine from a material after bleaching or to neutralize the chlorine present
- antideath — Preventing death.
- antigraph — A copy or transcript.
- antihelix — the rounded piece of cartilage inside the outer rim (helix) of the ear; anthelix
- antihuman — opposed to or hostile to humanity, inhuman
- antimacho — opposed to macho attitudes
- antiochus — name of thirteen kings of the Seleucid dynasty of Syria
- antipathy — Antipathy is a strong feeling of dislike or hostility towards someone or something.
- antiphase — (physics, mathematics) A difference in phase (of two waves) of 180°.
- antiphone — (music) The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or singing.
- antiphons — Plural form of antiphon.
- antiphony — the antiphonal singing of a musical composition by two choirs
- antishake — denoting a technology that reduces the blurring caused by movement of the person taking a photograph
- antishark — designed to protect against shark attacks
- antishock — designed to reduce the force of impact
- antitheft — (of a device, campaign, system, etc) designed to prevent theft
- antiwhite — hostile to White people
- antshrike — any of several antbirds, especially of the genus Thamnophilus, superficially resembling the shrike.
- anythings — a thing of any kind.
- anywheres — in, at, or to any place.
- apartheid — Apartheid was a political system in South Africa in which people were divided into racial groups and kept apart by law.
- apatheism — (religion) Apathy towards the existence of a god; belief that the question of the existence of a god is unimportant.
- apatheist — (religion) A person who may accept the existence of a god, but who does not care about that god's existence.
- apathetic — If you describe someone as apathetic, you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about doing anything.
- aphanitic — of or resembling aphanite
- apheresis — the omission of a letter or syllable at the beginning of a word
- apheretic — Standard spelling of aphaeretic.
- aphetized — (linguistics, of a word) Having undergone aphesis, the removal of an unstressed initial vowel.
- aphorisms — Plural form of aphorism.
- aphorized — Simple past tense and past participle of aphorize.