9-letter words containing r, e, h
- bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
- burthened — burden1 .
- bush wren — a wren, Xenicus longipes, occurring in New Zealand: family Xenicidae
- butcher's — a look
- butchered — a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
- butcherer — a person who butchers
- butcherly — of or resembling a butcher
- buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
- camelhair — the hair of the camel or dromedary, used in clothing, rugs, etc
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- car chase — when one car is in quick pursuit of another
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- car thief — a person who steals automobiles
- caragheen — Alternative form of carrageen.
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- care home — A care home is a large house or institution where people with particular problems or special needs are looked after.
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- cartwheel — If you do a cartwheel, you do a fast, circular movement with your body. You fall sideways, put your hands on the ground, swing your legs over, and return to a standing position.
- cashiered — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- cashierer — a person who rejects or dismisses from office
- catharise — purify
- catharize — to purify or make clean
- catharses — Plural form of catharsis.
- cathedral — A cathedral is a very large and important church which has a bishop in charge of it.
- catherine — Saint. died 307 ad, legendary Christian martyr of Alexandria, who was tortured on a spiked wheel and beheaded
- catheters — Plural form of catheter.
- cauchemar — a nightmare
- cerecloth — waxed waterproof cloth of a kind formerly used as a shroud
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- chaeronea — an ancient Greek town in W Boeotia: site of the victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians and Thebans (338 bc) and of Sulla over Mithridates (86 bc)
- chaffered — Simple past tense and past participle of chaffer.
- chafferer — One who chaffers; a bargainer.
- chagrined — If you are chagrined by something, it disappoints, upsets, or annoys you, perhaps because of your own failure.
- chair bed — a chair that can be opened out to form a bed.
- chairside — Relating to activities that happen next to the dental chair during treatment.
- chambered — having a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
- chamberer — someone who attends to a bed chamber; chambermaid or chamberlain
- chamberys — a city in and the capital of Savoie, in SE France.
- chamfered — a cut that is made in wood or some other material, usually at a 45° angle to the adjacent principal faces. Compare bevel.
- champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
- chanceler — Obsolete form of chancellor.
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.
- chandlery — the business, warehouse, or merchandise of a chandler
- channeler — a person or thing that channels; specif., a medium (sense 7)