9-letter words containing i, h, r
- kachcheri — The government department that administrates a district in Sri Lanka.
- kamarhati — a city in West Bengal state, in NE India, a suburb of Kolkata.
- katharine — a popular female first name
- katharsis — Alt form catharsis.
- katherine — a female given name: from the Greek word meaning “pure.”.
- kathiawar — a peninsula on the W coast of India.
- kerchiefs — Plural form of kerchief.
- kharijite — a member of an ultraconservative, sometimes fanatical, sect emphasizing the importance of strict adherence to Muslim principles of conduct, and advocating the killing of anyone seriously violating those principles.
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- khwarizmi — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- kilohertz — a unit of frequency, equal to 1000 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kHz.
- king horn — the earliest extant verse romance (late 13th century) in the English language.
- kirchhoff — Gustav Robert [goo s-tahf roh-bert] /ˈgʊs tɑf ˈroʊ bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1824–87, German physicist.
- kirghizia — a republic in central Asia, S of Kazakhstan and N of Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan). 76,460 sq. mi. (198,500 sq. km). Capital: Bishkek.
- kitchener — Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome) 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
- kórinthos — an ancient city in Greece, on the Isthmus of Corinth: one of the wealthiest and most powerful of the ancient Greek cities.
- koshering — Present participle of kosher.
- kriemhild — the wife of Siegfried and the sister of Gunther.
- kritarchy — Rule by judges.
- kshatriya — a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans.
- kurashiki — a city on SW Honshu, in Japan.
- kyriarchy — A system of
- laberinth — (obsolete) labyrinth.
- labryinth — Misspelling of labyrinth.
- labyrinth — an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lash rail — a rail, solidly fixed to the bulwarks of a vessel, to which objects on deck can be lashed.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- lathering — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- lcm chair — Eames chair (def 1).
- lechering — a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.
- lengthier — having or being of great length; very long: a lengthy journey.
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- lickerish — fond of and eager for choice food.
- light air — a wind of 1–3 miles per hour (0.5–1.3 m/sec).
- lightener — That which lightens.
- lightered — Simple past tense and past participle of lighter.
- lightyear — Alternative spelling of light year.
- lindbergh — Anne (Spencer) Morrow, 1906–2001, U.S. writer (wife of Charles Augustus Lindbergh).
- lingereth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of linger.
- lionheart — a person of exceptional courage and bravery.
- liquorish — fond of and eager for choice food.
- lithosere — a sere originating on rock.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.
- logarithm — the exponent of the power to which a base number must be raised to equal a given number; log: 2 is the logarithm of 100 to the base 10 (2 = log10 100).
- logogriph — an anagram, or a puzzle involving anagrams.
- lohengrin — the son of Parzival, and a knight of the Holy Grail.