9-letter words containing i, r, s, h, t, e
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prettyish — quite pretty
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- ratherish — fairly, moderately
- red shift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- rehnquist — William H(ubbs) [huhbz] /hʌbz/ (Show IPA), 1924–2005, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1972–86; chief justice 1986–2005.
- reichsrat — German History. the upper house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- reichstag — the lower house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- resighted — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rightless — lacking rights
- rightness — correctness or accuracy.
- rightsize — to adjust to an appropriate size: Layoffs will be necessary to rightsize our workforce.
- runesmith — a student, writer, transcriber, or decipherer of runes.
- scratchie — a scratchcard
- senhorita — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- shirtless — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- shrillest — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- sightseer — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
- slithered — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
- sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
- stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
- starshine — starlight
- steerhide — the hide of a steer.
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stitchery — needlework.
- storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
- streicher — Julius. 1885–1946, German Nazi journalist and politician, who spread anti-Semitic propaganda as editor of Der Stürmer (1923–45). He was hanged as a war criminal
- stretchie — an infant's one-piece garment covering the torso, legs, and feet, made of stretch fabric.
- superthin — extremely thin
- tarnished — metal: discolored
- tee shirt — a lightweight, usually knitted, pullover shirt, close-fitting and with a round neckline and short sleeves, worn as an undershirt or outer garment.
- tee-shirt — T-shirt
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- the girls — a group of women, esp acquaintances
- the irish — the natives or inhabitants of Ireland
- the rains — the season of heavy rainfall, esp in the tropics
- the-birds — a comedy (414 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
- the-miser — a comedy (1668) by Molière.
- theatrics — (used with a singular verb) the art of staging plays and other stage performances.
- theorised — to form a theory or theories.
- therapist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
- therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
- thersites — (in the Iliad) a Greek who accused Agamemnon of greed and Achilles of cowardice during the Trojan War.
- theurgist — a system of beneficent magic practiced by the Egyptian Platonists and others.