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9-letter words containing f, i, h

  • sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
  • sheatfish — a large, freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis, inhabiting rivers in central and eastern Europe, sometimes reaching a weight of 400 pounds (181.4 kg).
  • sheffield — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
  • shelf ice — ice forming part of or broken from an ice shelf.
  • shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
  • shellfire — the firing of explosive shells or projectiles.
  • shellfish — an aquatic animal having a shell, as the oyster and other mollusks and the lobster and other crustaceans.
  • sherifian — pertaining to a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
  • shift bid — a bid in a suit different from the suit just bid by one's partner.
  • shift key — a typewriter key that determines whether characters are printed in upper or lower case and controls the printing of numbers and symbols.
  • shift out — (character)   (SO, Control-N, ASCII 14) The character which was used to "shift out" of an alternate character set on some ancient teletypes, reversing the effect of the Shift In (SI, ASCII 15) character.
  • shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
  • shiftless — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
  • shiftwork — a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks
  • shitfaced — very drunk.
  • shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
  • shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
  • skewwhiff — not straight; askew
  • snailfish — any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.
  • snakefish — lizardfish.
  • snipefish — any of several fishes of the family Macrorhamphosidae, of tropical and temperate seas, having a long, tubular snout and a compressed body.
  • soft hail — snow pellets.
  • spadefish — a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus Chaetodipterus, especially C. faber, of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
  • spearfish — fish: type of marlin
  • speechify — to make a speech or speeches; harangue.
  • spikefish — a large sea fish
  • squawfish — any of several large, voracious cyprinid fishes of the genus Ptychocheilus, inhabiting rivers of the western U.S. and Canada: the Colorado squawfish, P. lucius, is endangered.
  • stockfish — fish, as the cod or haddock, cured by splitting and drying in the air without salt.
  • stonefish — a tropical scorpion fish, Synanceja verrucosa, having dorsal-fin spines from which a deadly poison is discharged.
  • sub-chief — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
  • surf fish — any of various fishes living in shallow water along the Pacific coast of North America, as the surfperches
  • swampfish — a small fish, Chologaster cornuta, related to the cavefishes, inhabiting swamps and streams of the Atlantic coastal plain, having small but functional eyes and almost transparent skin.
  • sweetfish — a sweet-tasting omnivorous fish, native to Japan
  • swellfish — puffer (def 2).
  • swordfish — a large, marine food fish, Xiphias gladius, having the upper jaw elongated into a swordlike structure.
  • tallchief — Maria, 1925–2013, U.S. ballet dancer.
  • the fiend — the devil; Satan
  • the filth — the police
  • the mafia — an international secret organization founded in Sicily, probably in opposition to tyranny. It developed into a criminal organization and in the late 19th century was carried to the US by Italian immigrants
  • thickleaf — any of various succulent plants of the crassulaceous genus Crassula, having sessile or short-stalked fleshy leaves
  • thief ant — a small red ant, Solenopsis molesta, of North America, that nests in the walls of the nest of a larger species from which it steals eggs and young larvae.
  • thieflike — like a thief
  • thin film — a film of material only a few microns thick, deposited on a substrate, as in the technology for making integrated circuits.
  • thin-film — a film of material only a few microns thick, deposited on a substrate, as in the technology for making integrated circuits.
  • think fit — to regard as proper or appropriate
  • thirstful — having or full of thirst; thirsty
  • threadfin — any spiny-rayed fishes of the family Polynemidae, having the lower part of the pectoral fin composed of numerous, separate, filamentous rays.
  • thriftily — practicing thrift or economical management; frugal: a thrifty shopper.
  • tigerfish — a large, voracious, freshwater game fish, Hydrocyenus goliath, of African rivers.
  • trunkfish — any plectognath fish of the family Ostraciontidae, of warm seas, having a boxlike body encased in bony, polygonal plates.
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