9-letter words containing i, s, r
- hairspray — a liquid in an aerosol or other spray container, for holding the hair in place.
- hairstyle — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- hairworms — Plural form of hairworm.
- halliards — Plural form of halliard.
- hampshire — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hamstring — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
- handrails — Plural form of handrail.
- harassing — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
- hard disk — magnetic disk (def 1).
- hard sign — the Cyrillic letter Ъ, ъ as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is not palatalized: not in official use since 1918.
- hardiness — the capacity for enduring or sustaining hardship, privation, etc.; capability of surviving under unfavorable conditions.
- hardlines — (business) Plural form of hardline.
- hardships — Plural form of hardship.
- hardwires — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hardwire.
- harestail — a species of cotton grass, Eriophorum vaginatum, more tussocky than common cotton grass and having only a single flower head
- harigalds — the intestines of an animal
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- harmonies — Plural form of harmony.
- harmonise — to bring into harmony, accord, or agreement: to harmonize one's views with the new situation.
- harmonist — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harridans — Plural form of harridan.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- haustoria — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- haversian — designating or of the canals through which blood vessels and connective tissue pass in bone
- haversine — one half the versed sine of a given angle or arc.
- havildars — Plural form of havildar.
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- headrails — Plural form of headrail.
- heartiest — warm-hearted; affectionate; cordial; jovial: a hearty welcome.
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
- heartsink — a patient who repeatedly visits his or her doctor's surgery, often with multiple or non-specific symptoms, and whose complaints are impossible to treat
- hectorism — the character or actions of a hector
- heiresses — Plural form of heiress.
- heirlooms — Plural form of heirloom.
- heliodors — Plural form of heliodor.
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helsingor — a seaport on NE Zealand, in NE Denmark: the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- helsingør — a port in NE Denmark, in NE Zealand: site of Kronborg Castle (16th century), famous as the scene of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Pop: 35 002 (2004 est)
- hendricks — a male given name, form of Henry.
- henneries — Plural form of hennery.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- herbalism — The study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of plants, now especially as a form of alternative medicine.
- herbalist — a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
- herborist — herbalist.
- heritages — Plural form of heritage.
- hermetics — alchemy
- hermetism — a former religion based on pagan mystical knowledge
- hermetist — a believer in or expounder of hermetism
- hermitess — A female hermit.