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9-letter words containing a, d, h, e, s, i

  • headlines — Plural form of headline.
  • headrails — Plural form of headrail.
  • headsails — Plural form of headsail.
  • headships — Plural form of headship.
  • headstick — a piece of wood formerly used in typesetting to create a margin at the top of a page
  • headwinds — Plural form of headwind.
  • heavisideOliver, 1850–1925, English physicist.
  • hendiadys — a figure in which a complex idea is expressed by two words connected by a copulative conjunction: “to look with eyes and envy” instead of “with envious eyes.”.
  • herodians — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
  • hesitated — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
  • hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
  • hillsdale — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • housemaid — a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.
  • humanised — Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.
  • inhearsed — Simple past tense and past participle of inhearse.
  • interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
  • lustihead — lustiness
  • made dish — a dish consisting of a number of different ingredients cooked together
  • maidenish — Resembling or characteristic of a maiden.
  • media-shy — reluctant to appear in the mass media
  • mindshare — Relative public awareness of a phenomenon.
  • mishandle — to handle badly; maltreat: to mishandle a dog.
  • misshaped — Simple past tense and past participle of misshape.
  • pied shag — a large New Zealand seabird, Phalacrocorax varius, with a white throat and underparts
  • rhodesian — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
  • sanhedrim — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
  • sanhedrin — Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.
  • sapphired — blue-coloured
  • semihardy — partially hardy; able to survive moderately low temperatures: semihardy plants.
  • shadiness — abounding in shade; shaded: shady paths.
  • shitfaced — very drunk.
  • shreading — furring attached to the undersides of rafters.
  • spadefish — a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus Chaetodipterus, especially C. faber, of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
  • stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
  • subhalide — a halide containing a relatively small proportion of the halogen, as mercurous chloride.
  • tarnished — metal: discolored
  • tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
  • theodosia — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “god-given.”.
  • therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
  • trainshed — (in a railroad station) a shelter completely covering railroad tracks and their adjoining platforms.
  • varnished — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
  • whipsawed — subjected to a double loss, as when an investor has bought a stock at a high price soon before it declines and then, in order to make good the loss, sells it short before it advances.
  • windshake — a crack between the annual rings in wood: caused by strong winds bending the tree trunk
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