9-letter words containing m, a, r, i, h
- kamarhati — a city in West Bengal state, in NE India, a suburb of Kolkata.
- khwarizmi — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- 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.
- 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).
- 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).
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- maharanis — Plural form of maharani.
- maharishi — a teacher of spiritual and mystical knowledge; religious sage: often used as an honorary title.
- manchuria — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
- marchlike — (music) Resembling a march.
- mariachis — Plural form of mariachi.
- mariehamn — a seaport on S Åland Island, in the Baltic.
- marigraph — a device that automatically registers the rise and fall of the tide.
- marihuana — hemp (def 1).
- markevich — Igor [ee-guh r] /ˈi gər/ (Show IPA), 1912–83, Russian conductor and composer.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- marsh tit — a small European songbird, Parus palustris, with a black head and greyish-brown body: family Paridae (tits)
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- martyrish — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- mata hari — (Gertrud Margarete Zelle) 1876–1917, Dutch dancer in France: executed as a spy by the French.
- matchgirl — A girl who sold matches on the streets.
- matriarch — the female head of a family or tribal line.
- mayorship — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- mindshare — Relative public awareness of a phenomenon.
- miryachit — A disorder found in Siberia, characterized by a jumping motion.
- mischarge — (legal or, finance) To charge wrongly.
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly
- mithraeum — a temple of Mithras.
- mithraism — an ancient Persian religion in which Mithras was worshiped, involving secret rituals to which only men were admitted: a major competitor of Christianity in the Roman empire during the 2nd and 3rd centuries a.d.
- monarchic — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
- mushairas — Plural form of mushaira.
- nightmare — a terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of helplessness, extreme anxiety, sorrow, etc.
- nightmary — (of a person) prone to having nightmares
- omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
- pariahdom — an outcast.
- pariahism — an outcast.
- ram singh — 1816–85, Indian leader of a puritanical Sikh sect, the Kukas, who tried to remove the British from India through a policy of noncooperation
- rhamphoid — beaklike or beak-shaped
- rhathymia — carefree behavior; light-heartedness.
- rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rhodamine — a red dye obtained by heating an alkyl aminophenol with phthalic anhydride.
- rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- sanhedrim — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
- scrimshaw — a carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like, made by whalers as a leisure occupation.
- semihardy — partially hardy; able to survive moderately low temperatures: semihardy plants.
- shakerism — the beliefs and practices of the Shakers.