9-letter words containing r, a, n, c
- grauncher — a person who crushes or destroys
- greenback — a U.S. legal-tender note, printed in green on the back since the Civil War, originally issued against the credit of the country and not against gold or silver on deposit.
- grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- grimacing — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- grocerant — A grocery store that sells prepared meals, either for eating on site or taking home.
- gynarchic — relating to gynarchy or rule by women
- gynocracy — gynarchy.
- gyrfalcon — a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number.
- gyromancy — a method of prediction or prophecy in which a person moves round and round in a circle and the place at which they fall to the ground is said to be highly significant
- hachuring — Present participle of hachure.
- handcarry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.
- handcarts — Plural form of handcart.
- handcraft — handicraft.
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- harmonica — Also called mouth organ. a musical wind instrument consisting of a small rectangular case containing a set of metal reeds connected to a row of holes, over which the player places the mouth and exhales and inhales to produce the tones.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- henrician — of or having to do with the reign, policies, etc. of any king named Henry, esp. Henry VIII of England
- herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- heritance — inheritance.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- huascaran — a mountain in W Peru, in the Andes. 22,205 feet (6768 meters).
- hurricane — a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
- hurricano — (obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
- hyrcanian — an ancient province of the Persian empire, SE of the Caspian Sea.
- ice apron — a structure built in a river upstream from a bridge pier or the like for protection against drifting ice.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- ignorance — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
- in accord — agreeing
- in camera — a judge's private office.
- in charge — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- inarching — to graft by uniting a growing branch to a stock without separating the branch from its parent stock.
- incarnate — embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form: a devil incarnate.
- incertain — Uncertain.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- increased — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- increaser — a person or thing that increases.
- increases — Plural form of increase.
- increated — Simple past tense and past participle of increate.
- incremate — (transitive) To cremate.
- incubator — an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurably — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurtain — (obsolete) To curtain.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- indicator — a person or thing that indicates.
- indurance — Obsolete form of endurance.
- inerrancy — lack of error; infallibility.