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9-letter words containing s, h, a, n, t

  • 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.
  • shantyman — a logger or lumberman
  • shark net — a net for catching sharks
  • sheathing — the act of a person who sheathes.
  • shirtband — a band of material sewn into a shirt for stiffening, finishing, or the like, as a neckband to which the collar is sewn or buttoned.
  • shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
  • shorthand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
  • sightsman — a tourist guide
  • siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
  • sixth man — a team's best substitute.
  • snap shot — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
  • snapshoot — to take a snapshot of (a subject).
  • snatching — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
  • southland — a southern area.
  • stag hunt — a hunt carried out to find and kill stags
  • stagehand — a person who moves properties, regulates lighting, etc., in a theatrical production.
  • staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
  • stakhanov — a city in E Ukraine, W of Lugnask.
  • stanchest — staunch2 .
  • stanchion — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
  • starshine — starlight
  • stathenry — the electrostatic unit of inductance, equivalent to 8.9876 × 10 11 henries and equal to the inductance of a circuit in which an electromotive force of one statvolt is produced by a current in the circuit which varies at the rate of one statampere per second.
  • stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
  • staunchly — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
  • stenobath — a stenobathic organism.
  • stephanie — a female given name.
  • stonechat — any of several small Old World birds, especially of the genus Saxicola, as S. torquata.
  • stonehand — a person who arranges type and imposes pages on an imposing stone
  • stonewash — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
  • straphang — to travel as a straphanger.
  • strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
  • 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.
  • switchman — a person who has charge of a switch on a railroad.
  • sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
  • synanthic — relating to synanthy
  • tarnished — metal: discolored
  • teachings — the act or profession of a person who teaches.
  • than most — than most others
  • thanatism — the belief that the soul ceases to exist when the body dies
  • thanatist — a person who believes in thanatism, the doctrine that the soul ceases to exist after death
  • thaneship — thanage.
  • thankings — expressions of gratitude or acts of thanking
  • thankless — not likely to be appreciated or rewarded; unappreciated: a thankless job.
  • thanks to — to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality.
  • the hanse — a medieval league of free towns in N Germany and adjoining countries, formed to promote and protect their economic interests: the leading members were Bremen, Lübeck, and Hamburg
  • the mains — the main distribution network for water, gas, or electricity
  • the rains — the season of heavy rainfall, esp in the tropics
  • the stans — a region in Central Asia that consists of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan
  • the sudan — a region stretching across Africa south of the Sahara and north of the tropical zone: inhabited chiefly by Negroid tribes rather than Arabs
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