9-letter words containing r, h, o
- anchorage — An anchorage is a place where a boat can anchor safely.
- anchoress — a female anchorite
- anchoring — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- anchorite — a person who lives in seclusion, esp a religious recluse; hermit
- anchorman — The anchorman on a television or radio programme, especially a news programme, is the person who presents it.
- anchormen — Plural form of anchorman.
- angashore — a miserable person given to complaining
- angophora — any tree of the genus Angophora, related to the eucalyptus and native to E Australia
- anhydrous — containing no water, esp no water of crystallization
- anorakish — (British, informal) Obsessively absorbed in a subject, especially an unusual or obscure subject.
- anorchism — Anorchia.
- anorthite — a white to greyish-white or reddish-white mineral of the feldspar group and plagioclase series, found chiefly in igneous rocks and more rarely in metamorphic rocks. It is used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics. Composition: calcium aluminium silicate. Formula: CaAl2Si2O8. Crystal structure: triclinic
- antechoir — the part of a church in front of the choir, usually enclosed by screens, tombs, etc
- anteporch — an outer porch.
- anthocarp — a composite false fruit, consisting of the actual fruit and the perianth
- anthropic — of or relating to human beings
- anthropo- — indicating man or human
- anthropod — Misspelling of arthropod.
- anti-hero — An anti-hero is the main character in a novel, play, or film who is not morally good and does not behave like a typical hero.
- antichlor — a substance used to remove chlorine from a material after bleaching or to neutralize the chlorine present
- aphorisms — Plural form of aphorism.
- aphorized — Simple past tense and past participle of aphorize.
- aphorizer — a person who aphorizes
- aphorizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aphorize.
- aphrodite — the goddess of love and beauty, daughter of Zeus
- apocrypha — the 14 books included as an appendix to the Old Testament in the Septuagint and the Vulgate but not included in the Hebrew canon. They are not printed in Protestant versions of the Bible
- apomorphy — (systematics): A derived characteristic of a clade. Any feature novel to a species and its descendants.
- arachnoid — the middle of the three membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord
- arbuthnot — John. 1667–1735, Scottish physician and satirist: author of The History of John Bull (1712) and, with others, of the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1741)
- archabbot — In certain Catholic (notably Benedictine) congregations, the title of the general superior, ranking above all other abbots, vested in a particular abbey, which hence is called an archabbey (usually its motherhouse, such as Beuron, which gave its name to a Benedictine congregation).
- archaeol. — archaeology
- archilowe — a treat, such as a drink, given in return for something
- archivolt — a moulding around an arch, sometimes decorated
- archology — the study of the origins of things
- archontic — relating to an archon
- archosaur — any of a group of reptiles consisting of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, modern birds, modern crocodiles and extinct relatives of crocodiles, all having a diapsid skull
- archstone — a wedge-shaped stone forming the curved part of an arch
- arcograph — an instrument used for drawing arcs without using a central point
- arrowhead — An arrowhead is the sharp, pointed part of an arrow.
- arseholed — very drunk
- art house — a motion-picture theater specializing in the exhibition of art films.
- 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.
- arthrodia — a joint
- arthropod — any invertebrate of the phylum Arthropoda, having jointed limbs, a segmented body, and an exoskeleton made of chitin. The group includes the crustaceans, insects, arachnids, and centipedes
- arthroses — Plural form of arthrosis.
- arthrosis — a bone joint which enables movement
- artichoke — Artichokes or globe artichokes are round green vegetables that have fleshy leaves arranged like the petals of a flower.
- ash color — ash gray.
- ashburton — 1st Baron, Baring, Alexander.
- ashtoreth — an ancient Semitic fertility goddess, identified with Astarte and Ishtar