9-letter words containing o, h, r, i
- inhibitor — a person or thing that inhibits.
- innholder — innkeeper.
- inwrought — worked in or closely combined with something.
- ionophore — a lipid-soluble substance capable of transporting specific ions through cellular membranes.
- iron hand — strict or harsh control: The general governed the country with an iron hand.
- ironsmith — a worker in iron; blacksmith.
- isherwood — Christopher (William Bradshaw) [brad-shaw] /ˈbræd ʃɔ/ (Show IPA), 1904–86, English poet, novelist, and playwright; in the U.S. since 1938.
- isochoric — Physics.. Also, isochor. Also called isometric, isometric line. for a given substance, a curve graphing temperature against pressure, when the volume of the substance is held constant.
- isochrone — a line, as on a map, connecting all points having some property simultaneously, as in having the same delay in receiving a radio signal from a given source or requiring the same time to be reached by available transportation from a given center.
- isochrony — the fact or state of occurrence at the same time; contemporaneity.
- isohydric — having the same acidity or hydrogen-ion concentration
- isomorphs — Plural form of isomorph.
- isorhythm — a structural feature characteristic of the Ars Nova motet, consisting of a single rhythmic phrase pattern repeated, usually in the tenor, throughout the composition.
- isotheres — Plural form of isothere.
- isotherms — Plural form of isotherm.
- jargonish — jargonistic
- khouribga — a city in W central Morocco.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- longhairs — Plural form of longhair.
- lordships — Plural form of lordship.
- lothair i — a.d. 795?–855, king of Germany 840–843; emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 840–855 (son of Louis I).
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- macrolith — a stone tool about 1 foot (30 cm) long.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- mayorship — the chief executive official, usually elected, of a city, village, or town.
- microchip — chip1 (def 5).
- microinch — a unit of length equal to one millionth of an inch. Symbol: μin.
- microlith — a tiny stone tool, often of geometric shape, made from a bladelet and mounted singly or in series as the working part of a composite tool or weapon, especially during late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- microthin — extremely or, sometimes, microscopically thin: a microthin layer of aluminum.
- minorship — the state of being a minor
- misgrowth — an abnormal or distorted growth
- mixotroph — any organism capable of existing as either an autotroph or heterotroph.
- moithered — Simple past tense and past participle of moither.
- monarchic — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
- monorchid — having or appearing to have only one testis.
- monorhine — an animal that has one nasal orifice
- morphemic — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).