9-letter words containing a, g, h, s
- shaggable — sexually attractive
- shakingly — the act of a person or thing that shakes.
- shale gas — Shale gas is a natural gas that is removed from rock by forcing liquid and sand into the rock.
- shambling — to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- shearlegs — shear (def 16).
- shearling — Chiefly British. a yearling sheep that has been shorn once.
- sheathing — the act of a person who sheathes.
- sheboygan — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg
- shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
- shreading — furring attached to the undersides of rafters.
- shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
- shroffage — the commission charged by a money dealer
- sight gag — a comic effect produced by visual means rather than by spoken lines, as in a play or motion picture.
- sightsman — a tourist guide
- siphonage — the action of a siphon.
- skiagraph — a radiograph.
- slag heap — A slag heap is a hill made from waste material, such as rock and mud, left over from mining.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- snatching — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- sonograph — an instrument that produces a graphic representation of sound.
- southgate — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- spaghetti — a white, starchy pasta of Italian origin that is made in the form of long strings, boiled, and served with any of a variety of meat, tomato, or other sauces.
- spanglish — Spanish spoken with a large admixture of English, especially American, words and expressions.
- sphagnous — pertaining to, abounding in, or consisting of sphagnum.
- squashing — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
- stag hunt — a hunt carried out to find and kill stags
- stagehand — a person who moves properties, regulates lighting, etc., in a theatrical production.
- staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
- starlight — the light emanating from the stars.
- straights — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- straphang — to travel as a straphanger.
- sugarbush — an evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, of the cashew family, native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having light yellow flowers in short, dense spikes and hairy, dark-red fruit.
- surcharge — an additional charge, tax, or cost.
- teachings — the act or profession of a person who teaches.
- thankings — expressions of gratitude or acts of thanking
- the gapes — a disease of young poultry and birds, characterized by gasping and choking and caused by gapeworms
- the stage — the theatre as a profession
- thrashing — an act or instance of thrashing; beating; blow.
- tight-ass — a strait-laced, inhibited person
- unhasting — not rushing
- unshaking — the act of a person or thing that shakes.
- unsharing — the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group.
- waggishly — In a waggish manner.
- yang-shao — of or designating a Neolithic culture of N China c5000–3000 b.c., characterized by dwellings with sunken floors, domestication of the pig, and a fine handmade pottery painted mainly in geometric designs of spirals and circles.
- yataghans — Plural form of yataghan.