9-letter words containing s, h, a, i
- skiagraph — a radiograph.
- slavishly — of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
- smash hit — a person or thing that is overwhelmingly successful or popular: Both the play and the movie based on it were smash hits.
- snailfish — any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.
- snakefish — lizardfish.
- snatching — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- soap dish — a dish designed to hold a bar of soap, especially as a bathroom or kitchen fixture attached to a sink, lavatory, or bathtub.
- soap-dish — a dish designed to hold a bar of soap, especially as a bathroom or kitchen fixture attached to a sink, lavatory, or bathtub.
- sociopath — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- sophonias — Zephaniah.
- spaceship — spacecraft.
- spadefish — a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus Chaetodipterus, especially C. faber, of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
- spaghetti — a white, starchy pasta of Italian origin that is made in the form of long strings, boiled, and served with any of a variety of meat, tomato, or other sauces.
- spanglish — Spanish spoken with a large admixture of English, especially American, words and expressions.
- spearfish — fish: type of marlin
- sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
- spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- spinebash — to rest; loaf.
- squabbish — rather short and fat or thick
- squashing — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
- squawfish — any of several large, voracious cyprinid fishes of the genus Ptychocheilus, inhabiting rivers of the western U.S. and Canada: the Colorado squawfish, P. lucius, is endangered.
- squeamish — fastidious or dainty.
- squirarch — a person who believes in government by squires
- stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
- stanchion — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
- starlight — the light emanating from the stars.
- starshine — starlight
- startlish — (of a horse) easily startled
- statolith — Zoology. any of the granules of lime, sand, etc., contained within a statocyst.
- stay with — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
- steamship — a large commercial vessel, especially one driven by steam.
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- stephanie — a female given name.
- stomachic — of or relating to the stomach; gastric.
- straights — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- subhalide — a halide containing a relatively small proportion of the halogen, as mercurous chloride.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- suquamish — a member of a Salishan-speaking North American Indian people of Washington, near Puget Sound.
- suribachi — an extinct volcano on Iwo Jima island: World War II battle 1945.
- sushi bar — restaurant serving Japanese rice dishes
- swampfish — a small fish, Chologaster cornuta, related to the cavefishes, inhabiting swamps and streams of the Atlantic coastal plain, having small but functional eyes and almost transparent skin.
- switchman — a person who has charge of a switch on a railroad.
- sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
- symphonia — any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.
- synanthic — relating to synanthy
- syphiloma — a tumour or gumma caused by infection with syphilis
- tahsildar — (in India) a collector for, or official of, the revenue department.
- tall ship — type of large sailing ship