9-letter words containing t, h, a, c
- hatchling — a young bird, reptile, or fish recently emerged from an egg.
- hatchment — a square tablet, set diagonally, bearing the coat of arms of a deceased person.
- hatchways — Plural form of hatchway.
- haycation — A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.
- haystacks — Plural form of haystack.
- headcloth — any cloth for covering the head, as a turban or wimple.
- headcount — The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- headstick — a piece of wood formerly used in typesetting to create a margin at the top of a page
- headstock — the part of a machine containing or directly supporting the moving or working parts, as the assembly supporting and driving the live spindle in a lathe.
- heart cam — Machinery. a cam with a single lobe having the general shape of a heart.
- heartache — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
- heathclad — Clad or crowned with heath.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- hectogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- helvetica — (text) One of the most widely used sans-serif typefaces, developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, it was renamed Helvetica for the international market. Helvetica is very similar to the common Arial typeface. The name is Latin for Swiss.
- hematinic — a medicine, as a compound of iron, that tends to increase the amount of hematin or hemoglobin in the blood.
- hematitic — Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.
- hepaticas — Plural form of hepatica.
- hepatitic — Related to hepatitis and other liver diseases.
- hepatoxic — Exhibiting hepatoxicity.
- heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hepteract — (mathematics) A seven-dimensional hypercube.
- heretical — of, relating to, or characteristic of heretics or heresy.
- heritance — inheritance.
- hesitance — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesychast — one of a sect of mystics that originated in the 14th century among the monks on Mt. Athos, Greece.
- hexacanth — (zoology) Having six larval hooks.
- hexastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of six lines.
- hexateuch — the first six books of the Old Testament.
- hic jacet — (on gravestones) here lies
- hieratica — a type of papyrus noted for its high quality and used by the ancient Egyptians in sacred books
- hierocrat — a person who believes in government by religious leaders
- hoatching — infested; swarming
- holarctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Nearctic and Palearctic regions.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- hopatcong — a town in N New Jersey.
- horsecart — A cart drawn by a horse.
- hot sauce — any of several highly spiced, pungent condiments, especially one containing some type of pepper or chili.
- housecats — Plural form of housecat.
- housecoat — a woman's robe or dresslike garment in various lengths, for casual wear about the house.
- humectant — a substance that absorbs or helps another substance retain moisture, as glycerol.
- humectate — to humect ie to moisten, to wet
- hyacinths — Plural form of hyacinth.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.