9-letter words containing o, h, a, r
- dear john — a letter from a woman informing her boyfriend or fiancé that she is ending their relationship or informing her husband that she wants a divorce: Nothing is worse for a soldier's morale than getting a Dear John.
- death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
- decachord — a ten-stringed musical instrument
- delaroche — (Hippolyte) Paul. 1797–1859, French painter of portraits and sentimental historical scenes, such as The Children of Edward IV in the Tower (1830)
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- diarrhoea — If someone has diarrhoea, a lot of liquid faeces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- dichondra — any of a genus of creeping perennial herbs of the Convolvulaceae family, with white, pale yellow, or green flowers
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- drag shoe — a type of braking device on a vehicle
- drag show — a performance by drag artists
- draghound — a hound for use in following a hunting drag, specifically bred for speed and stamina rather than subtlety of sense of smell.
- dragonish — Having the characteristics of a dragon.
- draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dreamhole — a light-admitting hole in a tower
- drop arch — a pointed arch having radii of length less than the span.
- dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- eachother — (nonstandard) misspelling of each other Typically used in the context of
- earphones — (countable) Plural form of earphone.
- earth-god — a god of fertility and vegetation.
- earthborn — born on or sprung from the earth; of earthly origin.
- earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
- earthworm — any one of numerous annelid worms that burrow in soil and feed on soil nutrients and decaying organic matter.
- echograph — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
- ecohazard — any substance or activity that poses a threat to a habitat or an environment: Off-the-road motorcycling is an ecohazard to fragile desert habitats.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- enchorial — Indigenous, native.
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- ergograph — A graph that shows a relation between human activities, or agricultural/climate factors, and a seasonal year.
- escheator — a person appointed to deal with escheats
- esophoria — (ophthalmology) Inward deviation of the eye usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance.
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- eurobeach — a beach that has been designated as suitable for bathing from because it meets the limits set by European Union regulations for bacteria in bathing areas
- eurotrash — fashionable Europeans, traveling or living abroad, of a type regarded variously as pretentious, shallow, irresponsible, parasitic, etc.
- exophoria — (ophthalmology) A form of heterophoria in which there is a tendency of the eyes to deviate outward.
- fairyhood — a fairy nature or state: the fairyhood of Puck.
- farm shop — a shop that sells farm produce
- farmhouse — a house on a farm, especially the one used by the farmer and farmer's family.
- fashioner — a person who fashions, forms, or gives shape to anything.
- fathogram — the record made by a sonic depth finder.
- flash rom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- flashover — Electricity. a disruptive discharge around or over the surface of a solid or liquid insulator.
- floorhead — the upper side of a floor timber on a boat or ship
- flowchart — Also called flow sheet. a detailed diagram or chart of the operations and equipment through which material passes, as in a manufacturing process.
- foolhardy — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- for shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
- forasmuch — Inasmuch, seeing (that).
- forehands — Plural form of forehand.
- foreheads — Plural form of forehead.