9-letter words containing a, s, h, l, e, r
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- 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.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- marshaled — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
- marshaler — (computing) A mechanism for marshalling data.
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- narghiles — Plural form of narghile.
- pearl ash — the granular crystalline form of potassium carbonate
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- plansheer — plancer.
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- ranchless — having no ranch or ranches
- reachless — unreachable or unattainable
- red flash — a red coloration of the lower portion of the sun, occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks to the horizon.
- rehearsal — a session of exercise, drill, or practice, usually private, in preparation for a public performance, ceremony, etc.: a play rehearsal; a wedding rehearsal.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- schedular — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- self-harm — injury inflicted deliberately on yourself
- shallower — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- sharklike — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- shearlegs — shear (def 16).
- shearling — Chiefly British. a yearling sheep that has been shorn once.
- sheldrake — any of several Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna, certain species of which have highly variegated plumage.
- shelfware — Computers. software or hardware that remains unsold, unused, or underused: shelfware as part of a bundled license deal.
- shellbark — the shagbark tree.
- shillaber — a shill or someone who poses as a satisfied customer in order to encourage other buyers or participants
- shirralee — a load, pack, or bundle
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- subhedral — (of mineral grains comprising igneous rocks) having a partial or incomplete crystal face or form.
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- thesaural — relating to a thesaurus
- trehalose — a white, crystalline disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , occurring in yeast, certain fungi, etc., and used to identify certain bacteria.