9-letter words containing r, e, h
- art-house — An art-house film is a film that is intended to be a serious artistic work rather than a piece of popular entertainment.
- arteether — Artemotil.
- arthroses — Plural form of arthrosis.
- artichoke — Artichokes or globe artichokes are round green vegetables that have fleshy leaves arranged like the petals of a flower.
- ashramite — a person who lives in an ashram or place of rest or contemplation
- ashtoreth — an ancient Semitic fertility goddess, identified with Astarte and Ishtar
- asphalter — a person who spreads a layer of asphalt
- atheromas — Plural form of atheroma.
- atherosis — (pathology) atheroma.
- athrocyte — a cell that is able to receive and store matter
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attrahens — (of muscle) drawing or pulling towards
- attrahent — attracting or drawing in
- authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorize — If someone in a position of authority authorizes something, they give their official permission for it to happen.
- azedarach — the astringent bark of the chinaberry tree, formerly used as an emetic and cathartic
- azederach — Alternative spelling of azedarach.
- bachelors — Plural form of bachelor.
- bachelour — Obsolete form of bachelor.
- backshore — the area of a beach above the usual high tide mark
- bankerish — resembling or befitting a banker, especially in being perceived as reserved and conservative in dress and demeanor: a model of bankerish decorum.
- barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- barthelme — Donald, 1931–89, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
- batchelor — (British) alternative spelling of bachelor.
- bathrobes — Plural form of bathrobe.
- bathwater — water in which a person bathes
- bay shore — a town on the S shore of Long Island, in SE New York.
- be mother — to pour the tea
- beachgoer — a person who goes to the beach, esp frequently
- beachwear — Beachwear is the things people wear for swimming.
- bear with — If you ask someone to bear with you, you are asking them to be patient.
- beardfish — any of several fishes of the family Polymyxiidae, found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, having a pair of long barbels under the chin.
- bearishly — In a bearish manner.
- bed chair — an adjustable frame for assisting invalids to sit up in bed.
- beer hall — a bar, cabaret, or the like, chiefly serving beer and usually offering music, dancing, etc.
- beerhouse — an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.
- beersheba — a town in S Israel: commercial centre of the Negev. In biblical times it marked the southern limit of Palestine. Pop: 183 000 (2003 est)
- behaviors — manner of behaving or acting.
- behaviour — People's or animals' behaviour is the way that they behave. You can refer to a typical and repeated way of behaving as a behaviour.
- bell arch — a round arch resting on prominent corbels.
- benchmark — A benchmark is something whose quality or quantity is known and which can therefore be used as a standard with which other things can be compared.
- benchrest — a tablelike support for a target rifle used in target practice.
- benighter — a person who keeps others in darkness
- berdichev — a city in W central Ukraine, SW of Kiev.
- berkshire — a historic county of S England: since reorganization in 1974 the River Thames has marked the N boundary while the Berkshire Downs occupy central parts; the county council was replaced by six unitary authorities in 1998. Area: 1259 sq km (486 sq miles)
- bernhardi — Friedrich A. J. von [free-drikh fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1849–1930, German general.