9-letter words containing h, i, r, o, s
- shorthair — a domestic cat with a coat of short, thick hair; a cat of a shorthaired breed.
- shortlist — a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- show girl — a woman who appears in the chorus of a show, nightclub act, etc.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- sore shin — a disease of plant seedlings, characterized by stem cankers that girdle the stem near the soil line, caused by any of several fungi, especially Rhizoctonia solani.
- sourishly — in a sourish manner
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stinkhorn — any of various rank-smelling, brown-capped mushrooms of the genus Phallus, especially P. impudicus.
- storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
- strongish — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- strophoid — a plane curve generated by the loci of points p and pprime; on a straight line that intersects the y-axis at a point n and the minus x-axis at a fixed point q, such that pn = npprime; = on, as on changes, where o is the origin. Equation: y 2 = x 2 (x + a)/(a − x).
- swordfish — a large, marine food fish, Xiphias gladius, having the upper jaw elongated into a swordlike structure.
- theorised — to form a theory or theories.
- thyristor — a semiconductor device having two stable states, used as an electronic switch.
- to rights — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- trichosis — any disease of the hair.
- trochilus — scotia.
- troopship — a ship for the conveyance of military troops; transport.
- tutorship — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- weisshorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Alps. 14,804 feet (4512 meters).
- whipworms — Plural form of whipworm.
- wordsmith — an expert in the use of words.
- worshiped — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- worshiper — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- worthiest — Superlative form of worthy.
- yorkshire — Also called York, Yorks [yawrks] /yɔrks/ (Show IPA). a former county in N England, now part of Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Cleveland, and Durham.