9-letter words containing r, h, a, t, n
- phanotron — a hot-cathode gas diode.
- phonatory — rapid, periodic opening and closing of the glottis through separation and apposition of the vocal cords that, accompanied by breath under lung pressure, constitutes a source of vocal sound.
- printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
- prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- pyracanth — a thorny evergreen shrub of the genus Pyracantha, related to the hawthorn
- radiothon — an on-the-air radio campaign, often lasting 24 hours or more, designed to raise money for a radio station, charity, the arts, etc., as from listeners phoning in and pledging specific donations, sometimes in exchange for gifts or premiums.
- rajasthan — a state in NW India; formerly Rajputana and a group of small states. 132,078 sq. mi. (342,056 sq. km). Capital: Jaipur.
- ranchette — a small-scale ranch, typically of only a few acres.
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- reheating — heating again.
- reinhabit — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- reinhardt — Jean Baptiste [French zhahn ba-teest] /French ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), ("Django") 1910–53, Belgian gypsy jazz guitarist.
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- rhodanate — a salt of thiocyanic acid
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- ruthenian — Also, Ruthene [roo-theen] /ruˈθin/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the inhabitants of Ruthenia, Galicia, and neighboring regions.
- sandhurst — a village in S England, near Reading, W of London: military college.
- senhorita — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- shark net — a net for catching sharks
- shirtband — a band of material sewn into a shirt for stiffening, finishing, or the like, as a neckband to which the collar is sewn or buttoned.
- shorthand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
- starshine — starlight
- stathenry — the electrostatic unit of inductance, equivalent to 8.9876 × 10 11 henries and equal to the inductance of a circuit in which an electromotive force of one statvolt is produced by a current in the circuit which varies at the rate of one statampere per second.
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- straphang — to travel as a straphanger.
- strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
- strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- tarnished — metal: discolored
- thanjavur — a city in E Tamil Nadu, in SE India.
- the rains — the season of heavy rainfall, esp in the tropics
- the raven — a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
- theandric — relating to the state of being both divine and human, esp pertaining to Christ
- therezina — former name of Teresina.
- third man — Cricket. the position of a fielder on the off side between slip and point. the fielder occupying this position.
- thirdhand — previously used or owned by two successive people.
- thirdsman — an intermediary or arbitrator; the third person
- thorazine — chlorpromazine
- thornback — a skate, Raja clavata, of European waters, having short spines on the back and tail.
- thorshavn — a city in and the capital of the Faeroe Islands, in the N Atlantic.
- thraiping — a thrashing
- thralling — a person who is in bondage; slave.
- thrashing — an act or instance of thrashing; beating; blow.
- threadfin — any spiny-rayed fishes of the family Polynemidae, having the lower part of the pectoral fin composed of numerous, separate, filamentous rays.
- threading — twisted filaments or fibers of any kind used for sewing.
- threating — a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course; menace: He confessed under the threat of imprisonment.
- thuringia — a state in central Germany. 5985 sq. mi. (15,550 sq. km) Capital: Erfurt.
- thwarting — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
- thyratron — a gas-filled, hot-cathode tube in which one or more control electrodes initiate, but do not limit and cannot interrupt, the flow of electrons.
- tocharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.
- tokharian — a member of a central Asian people of high culture, who were assimilated with other peoples about the 11th century a.d.