5-letter words containing i, s, h
- shirt — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- shite — If someone describes something as shite, they do not like it or think that it is very poor quality.
- shiur — a lesson, esp one in which a passage of the Talmud is studied together by a group of people
- shiva — “the Destroyer,” the third member of the Trimurti, along with Brahma the Creator and Vishnu the Preserver.
- shive — a splinter or fragment of the husk of flax, hemp, etc.
- shogi — the Japanese version of chess.
- shoji — a light screen consisting of a framework of wood covered with paper or other translucent material, used originally in Japanese homes as one of a series of sliding panels between the interior and exterior or between two interior spaces.
- sidhe — a mound or hill in which fairies live.
- sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- singh — a title assumed by a Sikh when he becomes a full member of the community
- sithe — to sigh
- sixth — next after the fifth; being the ordinal number for six.
- slish — a cut, slit or slash
- smith — Adam, 1723–90, Scottish economist.
- sochi — a seaport in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Black Sea: resort.
- sohio — An early system on the IBM 705.
- sophi — Sophy.
- spahi — one of a body of native Algerian cavalry in the French service.
- stich — a verse or line of poetry.
- sushi — cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri-zushi) or formed into a long seaweed-wrapped roll, often around strips of vegetable or raw fish, and sliced into bite-size pieces (maki-zushi)
- swish — to move with or make a sibilant sound, as a slender rod cutting sharply through the air or as small waves washing on the shore.
- swith — Chiefly British Dialect. immediately; quickly.
- thais — flourished late 4th century b.c, Athenian courtesan: mistress of Alexander the Great and Ptolemy I.
- ushki — an archaeological site at Kamchatka, U.S.S.R., revealing a late Pleistocene culture producing bifacial points with affinities to those of western North America.
- washi — A tough paper used in traditional Japanese art forms.
- whids — to move quickly and quietly.
- whies — Plural form of why.
- whigs — Plural form of whig.
- whims — an odd or capricious notion or desire; a sudden or freakish fancy: a sudden whim to take a midnight walk.
- whins — any thorny or prickly shrub, especially gorse.
- whips — to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
- whirs — to go, fly, revolve, or otherwise move quickly with a humming or buzzing sound: An electric fan whirred softly in the corner.
- whish — a whishing sound.
- whisk — to move with a rapid, sweeping stroke: She whisked everything off the table with her arm.
- whisp — A flock of snipe.
- whiss — to whistle or make some kind of sibilant sound
- whist — Chiefly Irish. silence: Hold your whist.
- whits — a particle; bit; jot (used especially in negative phrases): not a whit better.
- wisha — an expression of surprise
- wishe — Obsolete spelling of wish.
- wisht — (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of wish.
- wuhsi — Wuxi.