9-letter words containing h, a, t, i, e, s
- hesitance — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesitancy — hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
- hesitated — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
- hesitater — One who hesitates.
- hesitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hesitate.
- hesitator — Alternative spelling of hesitater.
- hetaerism — concubinage.
- hetairism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- hexastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of six lines.
- histamine — Biochemistry, Physiology. a heterocyclic amine, C 5 H 9 N 3 , released by mast cells when tissue is injured or in allergic and inflammatory reactions, causing dilation of small blood vessels and smooth muscle contraction.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- hospitage — the position of being a guest
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitate — (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
- ingathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingather.
- insheathe — ensheathe.
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- lustihead — lustiness
- 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.
- mechanist — a person who believes in the theory of mechanism.
- megaliths — Plural form of megalith.
- mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantheist — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantihose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- ratherish — fairly, moderately
- reichsrat — German History. the upper house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- reichstag — the lower house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- schematic — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
- schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
- scratchie — a scratchcard
- sea fight — a fight between ships 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.
- shabbiest — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
- sheatfish — a large, freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis, inhabiting rivers in central and eastern Europe, sometimes reaching a weight of 400 pounds (181.4 kg).
- sheathing — the act of a person who sheathes.
- shechitah — the slaughtering of animals for food by a duly certified person in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shitfaced — very drunk.
- shulamite — an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13.
- siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
- 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.