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9-letter words containing h, e, a, s

  • shankbone — a large bone in the lower leg between the knee and the foot of an animal; the tibia
  • shapeless — having no definite or regular shape or form: a shapeless mass of clay.
  • shapewear — undergarments designed to mold or hold a body to a certain shape, as girdles.
  • share out — distribute fairly
  • sharecrop — to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
  • sharesave — (in Britain) a system by which employees can invest, risk-free, in their company's shares
  • sharesman — a person who works for a share of something
  • shareware — software distributed without initial charge but for which the user is encouraged to pay a nominal fee to cover support for continued use.
  • shark net — a net for catching sharks
  • sharklike — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
  • sharp-set — eager to satisfy the appetite, especially for food.
  • sharpener — A sharpener is a tool or machine used for sharpening pencils or knives.
  • sharpness — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
  • shattered — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
  • shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
  • shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
  • shawlless — lacking, or not wearing, a shawl
  • 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.
  • sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
  • shear off — remove by cutting, slice away
  • shear pin — an easily replaceable pin inserted in a machine at a critical point and designed to shear and stop the machine if the load becomes too great
  • shearlegs — shear (def 16).
  • shearling — Chiefly British. a yearling sheep that has been shorn once.
  • 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.
  • sheboygan — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
  • shechinah — Shekhinah.
  • shechitah — the slaughtering of animals for food by a duly certified person in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.
  • sheddable — to pour forth (water or other liquid), as a fountain.
  • sheephead — a large California food fish, Semicossyphus pulcher, of the wrasse family.
  • sheepwalk — a tract of land on which sheep are pastured.
  • sheetcase — a covering made of sheet material, especially one used for a down comforter.
  • shekhinah — the presence of God on earth or a symbol or manifestation of His presence.
  • 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.
  • shellback — an old sailor.
  • shellbark — the shagbark tree.
  • shelleyan — Also, Shellian. of, relating to, or characteristic of Percy Bysshe Shelley or his works.
  • sherifian — pertaining to a descendant of Muhammad through his daughter Fatima
  • shewbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
  • shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
  • shillaber — a shill or someone who poses as a satisfied customer in order to encourage other buyers or participants
  • shippable — being in a suitable form or condition for shipping1 .
  • shipshape — in good order; well-arranged; trim or tidy.
  • shirralee — a load, pack, or bundle
  • shitfaced — very drunk.
  • shlimazel — an inept, bungling person who suffers from unremitting bad luck.
  • shoalness — (of water) the state of being shallow; shallowness
  • shoalwise — in shoals or large groups
  • shockwave — (tool)   A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator web browser. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an ISDN or faster connection.
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