9-letter words containing r, o, t, h, a
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crash-hot — extremely impressive
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- dartmouth — a port in SW England, in S Devon: Royal Naval College (1905). Pop: 5512 (2001)
- death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
- eachother — (nonstandard) misspelling of each other Typically used in the context of
- earth-god — a god of fertility and vegetation.
- earthborn — born on or sprung from the earth; of earthly origin.
- earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
- earthworm — any one of numerous annelid worms that burrow in soil and feed on soil nutrients and decaying organic matter.
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- escheator — a person appointed to deal with escheats
- eurotrash — fashionable Europeans, traveling or living abroad, of a type regarded variously as pretentious, shallow, irresponsible, parasitic, etc.
- fathogram — the record made by a sonic depth finder.
- flowchart — Also called flow sheet. a detailed diagram or chart of the operations and equipment through which material passes, as in a manufacturing process.
- foreteach — to teach (something) ahead of time
- forgather — to gather together; convene; assemble.
- forsaketh — Archaic third-person singular form of forsake.
- forsythia — a shrub belonging to the genus Forsythia, of the olive family, native to China and southeastern Europe, species of which are cultivated for their showy yellow flowers, which blossom on the bare branches in early spring.
- forthcame — Simple past form of forthcome.
- frontlash — an action or opinion that is in reaction to a backlash.
- ghost car — an unmarked police car
- goatherds — Plural form of goatherd.
- godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
- granolith — a composition stone for pavements, made from crushed granite or the like and cement.
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- ha'p'orth — a person considered as specified
- haftaroth — Plural form of haftarah.
- hailstorm — a storm with hail.
- haircloth — cloth of hair from the manes and tails of horses, woven with a cotton warp, and used for interlinings of clothes, upholstery, etc.
- hamartoma — (pathology) A benign mass of disorganized tissue.
- hammertoe — a clawlike deformity of a toe, usually the second or third, in which there is a permanent flexion of the second and third joints.
- handwrote — to write (something) by hand.
- hard boot — (operating system) A boot which resets the entire system. The phrase has connations of hostility toward, or frustration with, the computer being booted. For example, "I'll have to hard boot this losing Sun", or "I recommend booting it hard". Hard boots are often performed with a power cycle. Contrast soft boot. See also cold boot and reboot
- hardcourt — relating to a type of tennis court that is made of hard material
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
- hariolate — to practise divination or to prophesy
- harmonist — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmonite — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- harmotome — a zeolite mineral related to stilbite, occurring in twinned crystals.
- harrogate — a town in N England, in North Yorkshire: a former spa, now a centre for tourism and conferences. Pop: 70 811 (2001 est)
- hartshorn — the antler of a hart, formerly used as a source of ammonia.
- hatinator — a small decorative hat, worn on social occasions
- haustoria — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- haworthia — any of various succulent plants of the genus Haworthia, native to South Africa, having densely overlapping, often warty leaves clustered in rosettes.