9-letter words containing h, i, s, e
- lightless — without light or lights; receiving no light; dark.
- lightness — the state or quality of being light or illuminated.
- lightsome — emitting or reflecting light; luminous.
- like this — You weren't supposed to follow that link, it was just an example of what a link looks like.
- limehouse — a dock district in the East End of London, England, once notorious for its squalor: formerly a Chinese quarter.
- line fish — fish caught by lines rather than nets
- listeneth — Archaic third-person singular form of listen.
- litheness — The property of being lithe.
- lithesome — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- lithosere — a sere originating on rock.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- lustihead — lustiness
- made dish — a dish consisting of a number of different ingredients cooked together
- maidenish — Resembling or characteristic of a maiden.
- 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.
- manicheus — Manes.
- marshlike — Resembling a marsh or some aspect of one.
- mechanics — a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.
- mechanise — to make mechanical.
- mechanism — an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.
- mechanist — a person who believes in the theory of mechanism.
- media-shy — reluctant to appear in the mass media
- megaliths — Plural form of megalith.
- megillahs — Plural form of megillah.
- memsahibs — Plural form of memsahib.
- menshevik — a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party in opposition to the Bolsheviks: advocated gradual development of full socialism through parliamentary government and cooperation with bourgeois parties; absorbed into the Communist party formed in 1918.
- mephitism — poisonous air or a foul smell
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- mess with — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- methodism — the doctrines, polity, beliefs, and methods of worship of the Methodists.
- methodist — a member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of the revival of religion led by John Wesley: stresses both personal and social morality and has an Arminian doctrine and, in the U.S., a modified episcopal polity.
- methodius — Saint (Apostle of the Slavs) a.d. c825–885, Greek missionary in Moravia (brother of Saint Cyril).
- methystic — intoxicating
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- micromesh — a very fine mesh
- mightiest — Superlative form of mighty.
- mightless — (obsolete) Lacking in might; weak.
- milkshake — A thick beverage consisting of milk and ice cream mixed together, often with fruit, chocolate, or other flavoring.
- millhouse — a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.
- mindshare — Relative public awareness of a phenomenon.
- mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
- mirthless — gaiety or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter: the excitement and mirth of the holiday season.
- misbehave — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
- mischance — a mishap or misfortune.
- mischarge — (legal or, finance) To charge wrongly.
- mischiefe — Obsolete spelling of mischief.
- mischiefs — Plural form of mischief.
- mischoice — a bad or wrong choice
- mischoose — to make a wrong or improper choice.