9-letter words containing h, i, e, l
- relishing — liking or enjoyment of the taste of something.
- replenish — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- republish — to publish again: to republish a bestseller in a special illustrated edition.
- reshingle — to put new shingles on; shingle again
- rheingold — See The Ring of the Nibelung.
- rheinland — Rhineland.
- rheophile — an organism that likes to live in flowing water
- rhigolene — a petroleum distillate intermediate between cymogene and gasoline, formerly used to produce local anesthesia by freezing.
- rhineland — that part of Germany W of the Rhine.
- rhodolite — a rose or reddish-violet garnet, similar to pyrope, used as a gem.
- richelieu — Armand Jean du Plessis [ar-mahn zhahn dy ple-see] /arˈmɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ dü plɛˈsi/ (Show IPA), Duc de, 1585–1642, French cardinal and statesman.
- richfield — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- rightable — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- rightless — lacking rights
- rulership — the act or fact of ruling or the state of being ruled: Foreign rulership of the country began in the 18th century.
- sablefish — a large, blackish food fish, Anoplopoma fimbria, inhabiting waters of the North Pacific.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- scheelite — calcium tungstate, CaWO 4 , usually occurring in tetragonal crystals: an important ore of tungsten.
- 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.
- schleiden — Matthias Jakob [mah-tee-ahs yah-kawp] /mɑˈti ɑs ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1804–81, German botanist.
- schlemiel — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
- schlemihl — an awkward and unlucky person for whom things never turn out right.
- schlesien — German name of Silesia.
- schleswig — a seaport in N Germany, on the Baltic.
- schlieren — Petrography. streaks or irregularly shaped masses in an igneous rock that differ in texture or composition from the main mass.
- schmeling — Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1905–2005, German boxer: world heavyweight champion 1930–32.
- schnitzel — a cutlet, especially of veal.
- schofield — John McAllister [muh-kal-i-ster] /məˈkæl ɪ stər/ (Show IPA), 1831–1906, U.S. general.
- seemlihed — seemliness
- sei whale — a rorqual, Balaenoptera borealis, inhabiting all seas: now greatly reduced in number.
- selachian — belonging to the Selachii, a group of fishes comprising the sharks, skates, and rays.
- selfishly — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
- sexaholic — a person who is addicted to sex
- shale oil — petroleum distilled from oil shale.
- shalelike — having the properties or appearance of shale
- sharklike — any of a group of elongate elasmobranch, mostly marine fishes, certain species of which are large, voracious, and sometimes dangerous to humans.
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
- she-devil — a woman who resembles a devil, as in extreme wickedness, cruelty, or bad temper.
- sheaflike — resembling a sheaf
- shearling — Chiefly British. a yearling sheep that has been shorn once.
- sheeplike — any of numerous ruminant mammals of the genus Ovis, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the goats, especially O. aries, bred in a number of domesticated varieties.
- sheetlike — resembling a sheet
- 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.
- 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.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.