9-letter words containing p, a, r, h
- hard porn — hard-core pornography.
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- hardparts — the skeleton
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
- hardships — Plural form of hardship.
- harp seal — a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale-yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur.
- harpooned — Simple past tense and past participle of harpoon.
- harpooner — a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
- harumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of harumph.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- head trip — a mentally exhilarating or productive experience, as one in which a person's intellect or imagination seems to expand.
- heatproof — not affected or damaged by heat, especially when placed in an oven or over a direct flame: heatproof cookware.
- hemiptera — the order comprising the true bugs.
- hen party — a party or gathering for women only.
- heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hepteract — (mathematics) A seven-dimensional hypercube.
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- hippiater — (rare) A veterinarian specializing in horse care.
- hippiatry — the treatment of disease in horses
- hippocras — an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
- hodograph — the figure described by the extremity of a vector that has a fixed origin and a position vector equal to the velocity of a moving particle.
- holograph — Also, holographic [hol-uh-graf-ik, hoh-luh-] /ˌhɒl əˈgræf ɪk, ˌhoʊ lə-/ (Show IPA), holographical. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
- homograph — a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not, as bear 1 “to carry; support” and bear 2 “animal” or lead 1 “to conduct” and lead 2 “metal.”.
- homophora — A reference that requires some type of general knowledge to understand.
- homopolar — of uniform polarity; not separated or changed into ions; not polar in activity.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hospodars — Plural form of hospodar.
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- hyde park — a public park in London, England.
- hyper-man — A browser available with Epoch giving hypertext access to the Unix manual.
- hyperacid — Highly acidic.
- hyperarid — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hypercard — A software package by Bill Atkinson for storage and retrieval of information on the Macintosh. It can handle images and is designed for browsing. The powerful customisable interactive user interface allows new applications to be easily constructed by manipulating objects on the screen, often without conventional programming, though the language HyperTalk can be used for more complex tasks.
- hyperemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hypergamy — the practice among Hindu women of marrying into a caste at least as high as their own.
- hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
- hypernova — (astronomy) The gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole.
- hyperopia — a condition of the eye in which parallel rays are focused behind the retina, distant objects being seen more distinctly than near ones; farsightedness (opposed to myopia).
- hyperoxia — (pathology) A condition caused by an excess of oxygen in tissues and organs.
- hyperpnea — abnormally deep or rapid respiration.
- hyperreal — Exaggerated in comparison to reality.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.