9-letter words containing o, r, t, h, s, i
- hygristor — an electronic component the resistance of which varies with humidity
- hysteroid — resembling hysteria.
- ingrowths — Plural form of ingrowth.
- ironsmith — a worker in iron; blacksmith.
- isorhythm — a structural feature characteristic of the Ars Nova motet, consisting of a single rhythmic phrase pattern repeated, usually in the tenor, throughout the composition.
- isotheres — Plural form of isothere.
- isotherms — Plural form of isotherm.
- kórinthos — an ancient city in Greece, on the Isthmus of Corinth: one of the wealthiest and most powerful of the ancient Greek cities.
- lithosere — a sere originating on rock.
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- misgrowth — an abnormal or distorted growth
- motorship — a ship driven by a diesel or other internal-combustion engine.
- northings — Plural form of northing.
- northside — The northern side of a building, street, area etc.
- of theirs — belonging to or associated with them
- orchestic — relating to dance
- orchidist — an orchid grower
- orthoaxis — the axis in a crystal
- orthotics — Also, orthosis. a device or support, especially for the foot, used to relieve or correct an orthopedic problem.
- orthotist — (used with a singular verb) a branch of medicine dealing with the making and fitting of orthotic devices.
- ostriches — Plural form of ostrich.
- otherwise — under other circumstances: Otherwise they may get broken.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outrights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outright.
- overshirt — a pullover sport shirt, worn outside the waistband of a skirt or pair of slacks.
- oversight — an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
- pirithoüs — a prince of the Lapiths, who accomplished many great deeds with his friend Theseus
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rightmost — farthest to the right side
- 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
- 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
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- 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).
- theorised — to form a theory or theories.
- thyristor — a semiconductor device having two stable states, used as an electronic switch.
- to rights — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- tovarisch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).