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9-letter words containing o, h, r, i

  • rightmost — farthest to the right side
  • rock hill — a city in N South Carolina.
  • rock hind — a small, orange-spotted grouper, Epinephelus adscensionis, inhabiting warm seas from North Carolina to Brazil, especially in the West Indies, and fished as food.
  • rodfisher — an angler or a person who fishes with a fishing rod
  • rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
  • roguishly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or acting like a rogue; knavish or rascally.
  • rompishly — in a rompish manner
  • root hair — an elongated tubular extension of an epidermal cell of a root, serving to absorb water and minerals from the soil.
  • rosefinch — any of various finches with pink patches
  • scirrhoid — resembling a scirrhus.
  • scirrhous — of a hard, fibrous consistency.
  • scorching — burning; very hot.
  • 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.
  • shiftwork — a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks
  • ship over — to enlist or reenlist in the U.S. Navy
  • shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
  • shipborne — carried on a ship.
  • shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
  • shorebird — a bird that frequents seashores, estuaries, etc., as the snipe, sandpiper, plover, and turnstone; a limicoline bird.
  • shoreline — the line where shore and water meet.
  • shoreside — land along a shore.
  • shoreview — a town in E Minnesota.
  • shorthair — a domestic cat with a coat of short, thick hair; a cat of a shorthaired breed.
  • shortlist — a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
  • shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
  • show girl — a woman who appears in the chorus of a show, nightclub act, etc.
  • sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
  • sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
  • sore shin — a disease of plant seedlings, characterized by stem cankers that girdle the stem near the soil line, caused by any of several fungi, especially Rhizoctonia solani.
  • sourishly — in a sourish manner
  • sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
  • stinkhorn — any of various rank-smelling, brown-capped mushrooms of the genus Phallus, especially P. impudicus.
  • storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
  • strongish — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
  • strophoid — a plane curve generated by the loci of points p and pprime; on a straight line that intersects the y-axis at a point n and the minus x-axis at a fixed point q, such that pn = npprime; = on, as on changes, where o is the origin. Equation: y 2 = x 2 (x + a)/(a − x).
  • swordfish — a large, marine food fish, Xiphias gladius, having the upper jaw elongated into a swordlike structure.
  • tephroite — a mineral, silicate of manganese, Mn 2 SiO 4 , occurring in orthorhombic crystals.
  • theodoric — a.d. 454?–526, king of the Ostrogoths and founder of the Ostrogothic monarchy in Italy: ruler of Italy 493–526.
  • theoretic — of, relating to, or consisting in theory; not practical (distinguished from applied).
  • theorised — to form a theory or theories.
  • thereinto — into that place or thing.
  • thermidor — Also called Fervidor. (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the 11th month of the year, extending from July 19 to August 17.
  • thermotic — of, related to or produced by heat
  • thitherto — up to that time; until then.
  • thon buri — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
  • thorazine — chlorpromazine
  • thornbill — any of various South American hummingbirds of the genera Chalcostigma, Ramphomicron, etc, having a thornlike bill
  • thornbird — any of various small S American birds of the genus Phacellodomus
  • thorndikeAshley Horace, 1871–1933, U.S. literary historian and teacher.
  • thornhill — Sir James. 1675–1734, English baroque painter. He is best known for decorating the Painted Hall, Greenwich Hospital (1708–27) and the interior of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral (1715–17)
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