9-letter words containing a, r, h, u, s
- hairbrush — a brush for smoothing and styling the hair.
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- handsturn — an amount of work or the period of time spent doing a piece of work
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- harborous — welcoming and offering hospitality
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- harquebus — any of several small-caliber long guns operated by a matchlock or wheel-lock mechanism, dating from about 1400.
- harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- hasdrubal — died 207 b.c, Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
- hausfraus — Plural form of hausfrau.
- haushofer — Karl, 1860–1946, German geographer and general: political adviser to Hitler.
- haustoria — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- hazardous — full of risk; perilous; risky: a hazardous journey.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- heucheras — Plural form of heuchera.
- hilarious — arousing great merriment; extremely funny: a hilarious story; a hilarious old movie.
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- hourglass — an instrument for measuring time, consisting of two bulbs of glass joined by a narrow passage through which a quantity of sand or mercury runs in just an hour.
- 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.
- huascaran — a mountain in W Peru, in the Andes. 22,205 feet (6768 meters).
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- husbandry — the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
- hydraulus — a pipe organ of ancient Greece and Rome using water pressure to maintain the air supply.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- kurashiki — a city on SW Honshu, in Japan.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- man crush — an intense but non-sexual admiration felt by one man for another
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- megahurts — Plural form of megahurt.
- mush area — a region where signals from two or more radio transmitters overlap, causing fading and distortion
- mushairas — Plural form of mushaira.
- musharraf — Pervez (ˈpɛrveɪz). born 1943, Pakistani general and politician; became military leader of Pakistan following a coup in 2001; president (2001–08)
- nailbrush — a small brush with stiff bristles, used to clean the fingernails.
- nothosaur — An extinct semiaquatic carnivorous reptile of the Triassic period, having a slender body and long neck, related to the plesiosaurs.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- 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.
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- pass rush — an attempt by the defense to prevent the quarterback from throwing successfully to a receiver.
- pea shrub — any of various small trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Caragana, of the legume family, native to central Asia, having showy, usually yellow flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- pharsalus — an ancient city in central Greece, in Thessaly: site of Caesar's victory over Pompey 48 b.c.
- phytosaur — any armored, semiaquatic reptile of the extinct order Phytosauria, of the Mesozoic Era, resembling the crocodile but unrelated, having the nostrils high on the snout and with well-developed hind limbs suggestive of bipedal ancestors.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship