9-letter words containing r, h, a, e
- 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.
- hyperware — (hypertext) Software that implements or uses hypertext.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypoderma — hypodermis.
- ideograph — an ideogram.
- in charge — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- inbreathe — to breathe in; inhale.
- ingathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingather.
- inhabiter — inhabitant.
- inhearsed — Simple past tense and past participle of inhearse.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).
- interarch — to have intersecting arches
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- inwreathe — enwreathe.
- irish sea — a part of the Atlantic between Ireland and England.
- jayhawker — a native or inhabitant of Kansas (used as a nickname).
- job share — If two people job share, they share the same job by working part-time, for example one person working in the mornings and the other in the afternoons.
- job-share — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- kachcheri — The government department that administrates a district in Sri Lanka.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- katharine — a popular female first name
- katherine — a female given name: from the Greek word meaning “pure.”.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- kharijite — a member of an ultraconservative, sometimes fanatical, sect emphasizing the importance of strict adherence to Muslim principles of conduct, and advocating the killing of anyone seriously violating those principles.
- laberinth — (obsolete) labyrinth.
- laberynth — Obsolete spelling of labyrinth.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- larghetto — a larghetto movement.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- later han — the Han dynasty after the interregnum a.d. 9–25.
- lathering — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- leathered — Simple past tense and past participle of leather.
- lehrjahre — an apprenticeship
- lethargic — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- lightyear — Alternative spelling of light year.
- lionheart — a person of exceptional courage and bravery.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- logorrhea — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.