9-letter words containing i, n, s, g, h
- schwinger — Julian Seymour, 1918–94, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1965.
- scorching — burning; very hot.
- scotching — scutch (defs 2, 4).
- se'nnight — a week.
- searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- sgian-dhu — a dirk carried in the stocking by Highlanders
- shadowing — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shakingly — the act of a person or thing that shakes.
- shambling — to walk or go awkwardly; shuffle.
- shaveling — Older Use: Disparaging. a clergyman with a shaven or tonsured head.
- shearling — Chiefly British. a yearling sheep that has been shorn once.
- sheathing — the act of a person who sheathes.
- 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.
- shingling — a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
- shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg
- shiningly — in a shining or bright manner
- shinnying — a simple variety of hockey, played with a ball, block of wood, or the like, and clubs curved at one end.
- shivering — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
- 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.
- shrilling — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
- shrinking — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
- shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
- shuttling — a device in a loom for passing or shooting the weft thread through the shed from one side of the web to the other, usually consisting of a boat-shaped piece of wood containing a bobbin on which the weft thread is wound.
- sighingly — accompanied by sighing
- sightline — any of the lines of sight between the spectators and the stage or playing area in a theater, stadium, etc.: Some of the sightlines are blocked by columns.
- sightsman — a tourist guide
- siphonage — the action of a siphon.
- siphoning — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- sketching — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- skintight — fitting almost as tightly as skin: skintight trousers.
- sleighing — a light vehicle on runners, usually open and generally horse-drawn, used especially for transporting persons over snow or ice.
- sleuthing — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- slighting — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- slingshot — a Y -shaped stick with an elastic strip between the prongs for shooting stones and other small missiles.
- sloughing — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- smooching — smutch.
- smooshing — to mash or push, especially to push down or in; compress: to smush a pie in someone's face.
- snatching — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- something — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
- songsmith — a writer of songs.
- spanglish — Spanish spoken with a large admixture of English, especially American, words and expressions.
- squashing — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
- stitching — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- strongish — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- sunbright — as bright as the sun, very bright
- switching — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.