9-letter words containing r, i, s, e
- herbalist — a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
- herborist — herbalist.
- heritages — Plural form of heritage.
- hermetics — alchemy
- hermetism — a former religion based on pagan mystical knowledge
- hermetist — a believer in or expounder of hermetism
- hermitess — A female hermit.
- hermitism — the act of living as a hermit
- herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- heroinism — an addiction to heroin
- heronries — Plural form of heronry.
- hesitater — One who hesitates.
- hesitator — Alternative spelling of hesitater.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- hetaerism — concubinage.
- hetairism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- heterosis — the increase in growth, size, fecundity, function, yield, or other characters in hybrids over those of the parents.
- heuretics — the use of logic
- heuristic — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hickories — Plural form of hickory.
- hierarchs — Plural form of hierarch.
- high-rise — (of a building) having a comparatively large number of stories and equipped with elevators: a high-rise apartment house.
- highrises — Plural form of highrise.
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- hillcrest — The crest of a hill.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- hirelings — Plural form of hireling.
- hiroshige — Ando [ahn-daw] /ˈɑnˈdɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Tokube") 1797–1858, Japanese painter.
- hirsuties — Hirsutism.
- historied — abounding in notable history; having an illustrious past; storied: Italy is a richly historied land.
- histories — the branch of knowledge dealing with past events.
- hitlerism — the doctrines, principles, and practices of the Nazi party, especially as developed by Hitler; Nazism.
- hoariness — The characteristic of being hoary.
- hollister — a town in W California.
- homefries — Plural form of homefry.
- homegirls — Plural form of homegirl.
- hookerish — Lb slang Resembling or befitting a prostitute.
- horniness — consisting of a horn or a hornlike substance; corneous.
- hornpipes — Plural form of hornpipe.
- horridest — Superlative form of horrid.
- horrifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of horrify.
- horsefish — moonfish (def 1).
- horsehair — a hair or the hair of a horse, especially from the mane or tail.
- horsehide — the hide of a horse.
- horselike — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- horsemint — a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
- horseshit — nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- horsewhip — a whip for controlling horses.
- horsiness — The quality of being, or resembling, a horse.