9-letter words containing h, s, t, r
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- chymistry — chemistry.
- citharist — a player of the cithara
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
- cothurnus — the buskin worn in ancient Greek tragedy
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crash-hot — extremely impressive
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- crotchets — Plural form of crotchet.
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- daughters — Plural form of daughter.
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- deutscher — Isaac, 1907–1967, English journalist and author, born in Poland.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
- drawsheet — a narrow sheet, often used on hospital beds, placed under a patient's buttocks and often over a rubber sheet, that can easily be removed if soiled.
- driftfish — any of several butterfishes, especially of the genus Psenes, inhabiting tropical waters.
- drop shot — (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball or shuttlecock so softly hit that it falls to the playing surface just after clearing the net.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- earthfast — relating to a method of building or to buildings that have no foundations but are supported by posts knocked into the ground
- earthrise — the rising of the earth above the horizon of the moon or other celestial body, viewed from that body's surface or from a spacecraft orbiting it.
- earthstar — a fungus of the genus Geaster, having an outer covering that splits into the form of a star.
- ellsworth — Lincoln1880-1951; U.S. polar explorer
- enshelter — to shelter
- enthralls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enthrall.
- eremitish — resembling an eremite
- erstwhile — Former.
- erythrism — A congenital condition of abnormal redness in an animal’s fur, plumage, or skin.
- escheator — a person appointed to deal with escheats
- esterházy — a noble Hungarian family that produced many soldiers, diplomats, and patrons of the arts. Prince Miklós József Esterházy (1714–90) rebuilt the family castle of Esterháza and employed Haydn as his musical director (1766–90)
- etherised — Simple past tense and past participle of etherise.
- etherizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of etherize.
- ethernets — Plural form of ethernet.
- ethnarchs — Plural form of ethnarch.
- eucharist — The Eucharist is the Christian religious ceremony in which Christ's last meal with his disciples is celebrated by eating bread and drinking wine.
- euphrates — a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing south across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris, forming the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows to the head of the Persian Gulf: important in ancient times for the extensive irrigation of its valley (in Mesopotamia). Length: 3598 km (2235 miles)
- eurotrash — fashionable Europeans, traveling or living abroad, of a type regarded variously as pretentious, shallow, irresponsible, parasitic, etc.
- exarchist — a supporter of an exarch, esp the Exarch of Bulgaria
- exhauster — (obsolete) exhaust, exhaust pipe.
- exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
- farthings — Plural form of farthing.
- firsthand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
- fletchers — Plural form of fletcher.
- for short — having little length; not long.
- foresheet — the sheet of a headsail.