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9-letter words containing r, h, a, g

  • logorrhea — pathologically incoherent, repetitious speech.
  • longhairs — Plural form of longhair.
  • marigraph — a device that automatically registers the rise and fall of the tide.
  • marsh gas — a gaseous decomposition product of organic matter, consisting primarily of methane.
  • matchgirl — A girl who sold matches on the streets.
  • megahertz — a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second. Abbreviation: MHz.
  • megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
  • megathere — any of the huge, slothlike animals of the extinct genus Megatherium, or closely related genera, that lived from the Oligocene to the Pleistocene epochs.
  • megatherm — a plant requiring a constant high temperature and abundant moisture for growth.
  • mischarge — (legal or, finance) To charge wrongly.
  • monograph — a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.
  • myographs — Plural form of myograph.
  • narghiles — Plural form of narghile.
  • narguileh — hookah
  • naughtier — disobedient; mischievous (used especially in speaking to or about children): Weren't we naughty not to eat our spinach?
  • negrohead — a type of low-quality India rubber
  • nephogram — a photograph of a cloud
  • nha trang — a port in SW Vietnam.
  • nightgear — nightclothes, that which is worn at night
  • nightjars — Plural form of nightjar.
  • nightmare — a terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of helplessness, extreme anxiety, sorrow, etc.
  • nightmary — (of a person) prone to having nightmares
  • nightward — heading towards night, heading westwards
  • nightwear — night clothes.
  • nomograph — a graph, usually containing three parallel scales graduated for different variables so that when a straight line connects values of any two, the related value may be read directly from the third at the point intersected by the line.
  • ogee arch — an arch, each haunch of which is an ogee with the concave side uppermost.
  • oleograph — a chromolithograph printed in oil colors on canvas or cloth.
  • oligarchs — Plural form of oligarch.
  • oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
  • omnigraph — a device for converting Morse Code signals that are punched on a tape into audio signals, used in the training of telegraph operators.
  • ondograph — an instrument for graphically recording oscillatory variations, as in alternating currents.
  • orography — the branch of physical geography dealing with mountains.
  • orphanage — an institution for the housing and care of orphans.
  • orphaning — Present participle of orphan.
  • orthogamy — (botany) fertilization of the ovules of a plant by pollen from the same plant.
  • outcharge — to charge more than
  • paragraph — a distinct portion of written or printed matter dealing with a particular idea, usually beginning with an indentation on a new line.
  • pedograph — an imprint on paper of the foot.
  • peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
  • phalanger — any of numerous arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia, having foxlike ears and a long, bushy tail.
  • phansigar — a person from East India who operates as a thief and a murderer
  • pharyngo- — pharynx
  • phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
  • phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
  • photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
  • phreaking — phone phreak.
  • polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • ponograph — an instrument for graphically recording pain or muscular fatigue.
  • preaching — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
  • precharge — (storage)   The phase in the access cycle of DRAM during which the storage capacitors are charged to the appropriate value.
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