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9-letter words containing t, h, i, r

  • part with — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • parthenia — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
  • parthians — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
  • patriarch — the male head of a family or tribal line.
  • pedorthic — (of footwear) designed to alleviate problems with feet, lower limbs, posture, etc
  • perthitic — relating to, consisting of, or having a similarity to perthite
  • petrichor — a distinctive scent, usually described as earthy, pleasant, or sweet, produced by rainfall on very dry ground.
  • phanerite — any igneous rock whose grains are visible to the naked eye.
  • phrenetic — frenetic.
  • phrenitis — inflammation of the brain; encephalitis.
  • physiatry — physical medicine.
  • pie chart — a graphic representation of quantitative information by means of a circle divided into sectors, in which the relative sizes of the areas (or central angles) of the sectors correspond to the relative sizes or proportions of the quantities.
  • pirithoüs — a prince of the Lapiths, who accomplished many great deeds with his friend Theseus
  • pitch for — If someone is pitching for something, they are trying to persuade other people to give it to them.
  • pitchfork — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
  • plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
  • plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
  • pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
  • pothering — commotion; uproar.
  • power hit — (Or "power glitch") A sudden increase (spike) or decrease (drop-out) in the mains electricity supply. These can cause crashes and even permanent damage to computers. Computers and other electronic equipment should really include some kind of over-voltage protection in its mains input to prevent such damamge.
  • preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
  • prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
  • prettyish — quite pretty
  • printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
  • pritchett — Sir V(ictor) S(awdon) [sawd-n] /ˈsɔd n/ (Show IPA), 1900–97, English literary critic, journalist, novelist, and short-story writer.
  • prophetic — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
  • prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
  • prothetic — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
  • put right — rectify
  • pyrethrin — Also called pyrethrin I. a viscous, water-insoluble liquid, C 2 1 H 2 8 O 3 , extracted from pyrethrum flowers, used as an insecticide.
  • radiothon — an on-the-air radio campaign, often lasting 24 hours or more, designed to raise money for a radio station, charity, the arts, etc., as from listeners phoning in and pledging specific donations, sometimes in exchange for gifts or premiums.
  • rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
  • ratherish — fairly, moderately
  • rebirther — a person who has undergone rebirthing
  • rechabite — a total abstainer from alcoholic drink, esp a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a society devoted to abstention
  • red light — traffic light indicating stop
  • red shift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
  • red-light — Informal. to stop or deter by means of or as if with a red light.
  • reheating — heating again.
  • rehnquist — William H(ubbs) [huhbz] /hʌbz/ (Show IPA), 1924–2005, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1972–86; chief justice 1986–2005.
  • reichsrat — German History. the upper house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
  • reichstag — the lower house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
  • reinhabit — to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
  • reinhardt — Jean Baptiste [French zhahn ba-teest] /French ʒɑ̃ baˈtist/ (Show IPA), ("Django") 1910–53, Belgian gypsy jazz guitarist.
  • resighted — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
  • rethinker — a person who rethinks
  • retighten — to tighten again
  • rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
  • rhathymia — carefree behavior; light-heartedness.
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