9-letter words containing arch
- ethnarchs — Plural form of ethnarch.
- exarchate — A distant province governed by an exarch under the Byzantine emperors.
- exarchist — a supporter of an exarch, esp the Exarch of Bulgaria
- flat arch — an arch having a more or less flat intrados and extrados with voussoirs radiating from a center below the arch.
- frogmarch — to force (a person) to march with the arms pinioned firmly behind the back.
- gill arch — branchial arch.
- gynarchic — relating to gynarchy or rule by women
- hagiarchy — hagiocracy.
- 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.
- hierarchs — Plural form of hierarch.
- hierarchy — any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
- inarching — to graft by uniting a growing branch to a stock without separating the branch from its parent stock.
- interarch — to have intersecting arches
- jack arch — flat arch.
- kritarchy — Rule by judges.
- kyriarchy — A system of
- march fly — any of several flies of the family Bibionidae that appear during spring and early summer.
- marchland — borderland.
- marchlike — (music) Resembling a march.
- marchpane — marzipan.
- matriarch — the female head of a family or tribal line.
- metarchon — a nontoxic substance, such as a chemical to mask pheromones, that reduces the persistence of a pest
- monarchal — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a monarch: monarchal pomp.
- monarchic — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
- ogee arch — an arch, each haunch of which is an ogee with the concave side uppermost.
- oligarchs — Plural form of oligarch.
- oligarchy — a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- parchedly — in a parched manner
- parcheesi — a modern board game derived from the ancient game of pachisi
- parchment — the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
- patriarch — the male head of a family or tribal line.
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- phylarchy — a government led by a phylarch
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- polyarchy — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- presearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- rood arch — an archway at the center of a rood screen.
- roundarch — having rounded arches
- scholarch — the head of a school.
- search me — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- skew arch — an arch, as at the entrance to a tunnel, having sides, or jambs, that are not at right angles with the face.
- squirarch — a person who believes in government by squires
- tetrarchy — any ruler of a fourth part, division, etc.
- trierarch — the commander of a trireme.