9-letter words containing a, s, h, i, e
- hospitage — the position of being a guest
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitate — (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
- 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.
- humanizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humanize.
- impeaches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impeach.
- ingathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingather.
- inhearsed — Simple past tense and past participle of inhearse.
- insheathe — ensheathe.
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- irish sea — a part of the Atlantic between Ireland and England.
- ischaemia — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- ischaemic — (UK, pathology, cardiology) alternative spelling of ischemic.
- isohaline — a line on a map of the ocean connecting all points of equal salinity.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- jailhouse — a jail or building used as a jail.
- kaffiyehs — Plural form of kaffiyeh.
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- la chaise — Père François d'Aix de [frahn-swa de duh] /frɑ̃ˈswa dɛ də/ (Show IPA), 1624–1709, French Roman Catholic priest: confessor to Louis XIV.
- lash line — a rope or cord for lashing together the edges of two flats or other pieces of theatrical scenery.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- lifehacks — Plural form of lifehack.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- lustihead — lustiness
- made dish — a dish consisting of a number of different ingredients cooked together
- maidenish — Resembling or characteristic of a maiden.
- mainsheet — a sheet of a mainsail.
- makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
- manicheus — Manes.
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- mechanics — a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.
- mechanise — to make mechanical.
- mechanism — an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.
- mechanist — a person who believes in the theory of mechanism.
- media-shy — reluctant to appear in the mass media
- megaliths — Plural form of megalith.
- megillahs — Plural form of megillah.
- memsahibs — Plural form of memsahib.
- milkshake — A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.
- mindshare — Relative public awareness of a phenomenon.
- mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
- misbehave — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- mischance — a mishap or misfortune.
- mischarge — (legal or, finance) To charge wrongly.
- mishandle — to handle badly; maltreat: to mishandle a dog.
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- mishappen — (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
- mishegaas — meshugaas.
- misphrase — to phrase badly or incorrectly