9-letter words containing h, e, g
- repechage — (in cycling and rowing) a last-chance qualifying heat in which the runners-up in earlier heats race each other, with the winner advancing to the finals.
- reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
- reshingle — to put new shingles on; shingle again
- resighted — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- rethought — the act of reconsidering.
- retighten — to tighten again
- rheingold — See The Ring of the Nibelung.
- rhigolene — a petroleum distillate intermediate between cymogene and gasoline, formerly used to produce local anesthesia by freezing.
- rightable — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rightless — lacking rights
- rightness — correctness or accuracy.
- rightsize — to adjust to an appropriate size: Layoffs will be necessary to rightsize our workforce.
- rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
- rough-hew — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
- roughened — made rough
- roughhewn — to hew (timber, stone, etc.) roughly or without smoothing or finishing.
- roughneck — a rough, coarse person; a tough.
- roughness — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- sagebrush — any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.
- schelling — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von [free-drikh vil-helm yoh-zef fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈyoʊ zɛf fən/ (Show IPA), 1775–1854, German philosopher.
- schleswig — a seaport in N Germany, on the Baltic.
- schmeling — Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1905–2005, German boxer: world heavyweight champion 1930–32.
- schonberg — Arnold [ahr-nuh ld;; German ahr-nuh lt] /ˈɑr nəld;; German ˈɑr nəlt/ (Show IPA), 1874–1951, Austrian composer in the U.S.
- schulberg — Budd [buhd] /bʌd/ (Show IPA), 1914–2009, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and scenarist.
- schwinger — Julian Seymour, 1918–94, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1965.
- se'nnight — a week.
- sea fight — a fight between ships at sea.
- searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- segholate — a noun in Hebrew that has a long vowel in the first syllable and a short seghol in the second syllable
- serigraph — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- shaggable — sexually attractive
- shale gas — Shale gas is a natural gas that is removed from rock by forcing liquid and sand into the rock.
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- shearlegs — shear (def 16).
- shearling — Chiefly British. a yearling sheep that has been shorn once.
- sheathing — the act of a person who sheathes.
- sheboygan — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- sheep-dog — a dog trained to herd and guard sheep.
- sheerlegs — shear (def 16).
- shielding — a broad piece of armor, varying widely in form and size, carried apart from the body, usually on the left arm, as a defense against swords, lances, arrows, etc.
- shivering — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
- shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
- shore bug — any of various small, predaceous hemipterous insects of the family Saldidae, some of which are burrowers, commonly occurring along grassy shores of ponds, streams, brackish lakes, and seacoasts.
- short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
- shoveling — an implement consisting of a broad blade or scoop attached to a long handle, used for taking up, removing, or throwing loose matter, as earth, snow, or coal.
- shreading — furring attached to the undersides of rafters.
- shredding — a piece cut or torn off, especially in a narrow strip.
- shrieking — a loud, sharp, shrill cry.