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9-letter words containing y, a, h, r

  • rehydrate — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
  • rhathymia — carefree behavior; light-heartedness.
  • right-way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
  • scholarly — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
  • seaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • semihardy — partially hardy; able to survive moderately low temperatures: semihardy plants.
  • shadberry — the fruit of a shadbush.
  • shark bay — a large inlet on the W coast of Western Australia, 800 km (500 miles) north of Perth; the coastline is over 1500 km (930 miles) long and has two large shallow embayments and numerous islands; noted for its large sea-grass beds, stromatolites, and colonies of dugong; a World Heritage site. Area: 2.2 million hectares. Pop: 900 (2014 est)
  • short-day — requiring a short photoperiod.
  • stathenry — the electrostatic unit of inductance, equivalent to 8.9876 × 10 11 henries and equal to the inductance of a circuit in which an electromotive force of one statvolt is produced by a current in the circuit which varies at the rate of one statampere per second.
  • strayhornWilliam ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
  • strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
  • subahdary — the position or office of subadar
  • teacherly — characteristic of or pertaining to a teacher; pedagogic.
  • tetrarchy — any ruler of a fourth part, division, etc.
  • thackeray — William Makepeace [meyk-pees] /ˈmeɪkˌpis/ (Show IPA), 1811–63, English novelist, born in India.
  • theocracy — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
  • theocrasy — a mixture of religious forms and deities by worshipers.
  • theolatry — worship of a deity.
  • thereaway — in that direction; thereabouts
  • third way — The Third Way is used to refer to a set of political beliefs and principles that is neither extremely right-wing nor extremely left-wing.
  • three-way — providing connections to three routes from a central point
  • throwaway — made or intended to be discarded after use or quick examination: a throwaway container; a throwaway brochure.
  • thursdays — on Thursdays; every Thursday.
  • thyratron — a gas-filled, hot-cathode tube in which one or more control electrodes initiate, but do not limit and cannot interrupt, the flow of electrons.
  • thyroidal — of or relating to the thyroid gland
  • tracheary — using tracheae to breathe
  • trachytic — a fine-grained volcanic rock consisting essentially of alkali feldspar and one or more subordinate minerals, as hornblende or mica: the extrusive equivalent of syenite.
  • traycloth — a small cloth or piece of table linen used to cover or fit into a tray used for carrying
  • treachery — violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.
  • typograph — a machine for creating indentations of characters upon a sheet of metal from which prints can be made
  • uncharity — lack of charity; uncharitable thought or behaviour; unkindness
  • unearthly — seeming not to belong to this earth or world: unearthly beauty.
  • walbrzych — a city in SW Poland, in Silesia.
  • wałbrzych — an industrial city in SW Poland. Pop: 176 000 (2005 est)
  • weatherly — (of a ship or boat) making very little leeway when close-hauled.
  • werehyena — A mythological or folkloric shapeshifter capable of assuming the shape of a hyena.
  • xerochasy — the release of seeds when the seed pods dry out
  • xerophagy — a Lenten fast observed especially during Holy Week, constituting the strictest fast in the Eastern Church.
  • xylograph — An engraving in wood, especially one used for printing.
  • year head — a senior teacher who is responsible for a year in a secondary school
  • zephyrean — of, relating to, or like a zephyr; full of or containing light breezes.
  • zephyrian — of, relating to, or like a zephyr; full of or containing light breezes.
  • zoography — the branch of zoology dealing with the description of animals.
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