9-letter words containing i, s, r
- hermitism — the act of living as a hermit
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- heroinism — an addiction to heroin
- heronries — Plural form of heronry.
- hesitater — One who hesitates.
- hesitator — Alternative spelling of hesitater.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- hetaerism — concubinage.
- hetairism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- heterosis — the increase in growth, size, fecundity, function, yield, or other characters in hybrids over those of the parents.
- heuretics — the use of logic
- heuristic — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hickories — Plural form of hickory.
- hierarchs — Plural form of hierarch.
- high-rise — (of a building) having a comparatively large number of stories and equipped with elevators: a high-rise apartment house.
- high-risk — very dangerous
- highbrows — Plural form of highbrow.
- highrises — Plural form of highrise.
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hillcrest — The crest of a hill.
- hillsboro — a town in NW Oregon.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- hippocras — an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- hircosity — the quality of being like a goat
- hirelings — Plural form of hireling.
- hiroshige — Ando [ahn-daw] /ˈɑnˈdɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Tokube") 1797–1858, Japanese painter.
- hiroshima — a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: first military use of atomic bomb August 6, 1945.
- hirsuties — Hirsutism.
- hirsutism — excessive hairiness, especially in women.
- hissarlik — the modern name of the site of ancient Troy.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- histogram — a graph of a frequency distribution in which rectangles with bases on the horizontal axis are given widths equal to the class intervals and heights equal to the corresponding frequencies.
- historian — an expert in history; authority on history.
- historied — abounding in notable history; having an illustrious past; storied: Italy is a richly historied land.
- histories — the branch of knowledge dealing with past events.
- historify — to make something part of history or to tell the history of something
- hitlerism — the doctrines, principles, and practices of the Nazi party, especially as developed by Hitler; Nazism.
- hoardings — Plural form of hoarding.
- hoariness — The characteristic of being hoary.
- hollister — a town in W California.
- homefries — Plural form of homefry.
- homegirls — Plural form of homegirl.
- hookerish — Lb slang Resembling or befitting a prostitute.
- hormisdas — Saint, died a.d. 523, pope 514–523.
- hornbills — Plural form of hornbill.
- horniness — consisting of a horn or a hornlike substance; corneous.
- hornpipes — Plural form of hornpipe.