9-letter words containing e, s, t, h, r
- schmutter — cloth or clothing
- schvartze — a term used by some Jewish people to refer to a black person.
- scouthery — scorching
- scratcher — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- scratches — Old Scratch; Satan.
- scratchie — a scratchcard
- seaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- senhorita — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- set forth — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- shamateur — a sportsperson who is officially an amateur but accepts payment
- share out — distribute fairly
- shark net — a net for catching sharks
- sharp-set — eager to satisfy the appetite, especially for food.
- shattered — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- shea tree — an African tree, Butyrospermum parkii, of the sapodilla family, bearing a round, smooth-skinned fruit that contains one or more seeds yielding shea butter.
- sheetrock — a trademark name for plasterboard or drywall, composed of gypsum enclosed by heavy sheets of paper and used for constructing interior walls and ceilings
- sheltered — protected or shielded from storms, missiles, etc., by a wall, roof, barrier, or the like.
- shirtless — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- shoe tree — shaped insert for footwear
- short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- shorthead — a brachycephalic person.
- shortness — having little length; not long.
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- shrewdest — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- shrillest — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- shuttered — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- shvartzer — Yiddish: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. schvartze.
- sightseer — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- slithered — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- smotherer — a person or thing that smothers
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
- sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
- spreathed — sore; chapped
- stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
- starshine — starlight
- stathenry — the electrostatic unit of inductance, equivalent to 8.9876 × 10 11 henries and equal to the inductance of a circuit in which an electromotive force of one statvolt is produced by a current in the circuit which varies at the rate of one statampere per second.
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- steerhide — the hide of a steer.
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stitchery — needlework.
- stomacher — a richly ornamented garment covering the stomach and chest, worn by both sexes in the 15th and 16th centuries, and later worn under a bodice by women.
- storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft