9-letter words containing s, h, e, a, r
- hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
- hoariness — The characteristic of being hoary.
- hoarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of hoarsen.
- hoarstone — A stone designating the bounds of an estate; a landmark.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- hornbeams — Plural form of hornbeam.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- horsecars — Plural form of horsecar.
- horsecart — A cart drawn by a horse.
- horsehair — a hair or the hair of a horse, especially from the mane or tail.
- horsehead — moonfish (def 1).
- horsemeat — The flesh of a horse as food.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- horserace — Alternative spelling of horse race.
- horserake — A rake drawn by a horse.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- houseware — Homeware.
- huaraches — Plural form of huarache.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- ingathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingather.
- inhearsed — Simple past tense and past participle of inhearse.
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- irish sea — a part of the Atlantic between Ireland and England.
- job share — If two people job share, they share the same job by working part-time, for example one person working in the mornings and the other in the afternoons.
- job-share — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- marrakesh — a city in W Morocco.
- marsh hen — any of various rails or raillike birds.
- marshaled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshaler — (computing) A mechanism for marshalling data.
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- merchants — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- mindshare — Relative public awareness of a phenomenon.
- mischarge — (legal or, finance) To charge wrongly.
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly