9-letter words containing p, r, e, h
- shakspere — William ("the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon") 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.
- shapewear — undergarments designed to mold or hold a body to a certain shape, as girdles.
- sharecrop — to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
- sharp-set — eager to satisfy the appetite, especially for food.
- sharpener — A sharpener is a tool or machine used for sharpening pencils or knives.
- sharpness — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- shear pin — an easily replaceable pin inserted in a machine at a critical point and designed to shear and stop the machine if the load becomes too great
- sheep-run — a large property for raising sheep
- ship over — to enlist or reenlist in the U.S. Navy
- shipborne — carried on a ship.
- shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
- shipwreck — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sophomore — a student in the second year of high school or college.
- spearfish — fish: type of marlin
- spearhead — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
- spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
- spiderish — relating to or resembling a spider
- spreathed — sore; chapped
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
- sulphured — treated or combined with sulphur
- sulphuret — to treat or combine with sulphur
- superchic — highly or very chic
- superheat — the state of being superheated.
- superhero — a hero, especially in children's comic books and television cartoons, possessing extraordinary, often magical powers.
- superhigh — extremely high
- superhive — super (def 3).
- superhype — exaggerated hype
- superrich — having wealth or great possessions; abundantly supplied with resources, means, or funds; wealthy: a rich man; a rich nation.
- supershow — an exceptional show
- superthin — extremely thin
- surfperch — any of several fishes of the family Embiotocidae, inhabiting shallow waters along the Pacific coast of North America.
- telegraph — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
- tephigram — a chart depicting variations in atmospheric conditions relative to altitude
- tephroite — a mineral, silicate of manganese, Mn 2 SiO 4 , occurring in orthorhombic crystals.
- the press — the printed media
- the ropes — the fence made of rope that is around the edge of the area where a boxing or wrestling match takes place
- the strap — a beating with a strap as a punishment
- 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.
- thereupon — immediately following that.
- three ply — three-stranded knitting wool
- three-ply — consisting of three thicknesses, laminations, strands, or the like.
- threepeat — to win a third consecutive victory.
- tightrope — a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing.
- tophamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.