9-letter words containing s, h, a, t, r, i
- harmonist — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- haustoria — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- headfirst — with the head in front or bent forward; headforemost: He dived headfirst into the sea.
- heartiest — warm-hearted; affectionate; cordial; jovial: a hearty welcome.
- heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
- heartsink — a patient who repeatedly visits his or her doctor's surgery, often with multiple or non-specific symptoms, and whose complaints are impossible to treat
- herbalist — a person who collects or deals in herbs, especially medicinal herbs.
- heritages — Plural form of heritage.
- hesitater — One who hesitates.
- hesitator — Alternative spelling of hesitater.
- hetaerism — concubinage.
- hetairism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- hiratsuka — a city in central Honshu, Japan, near Yokohama.
- histadrut — a labor federation in Israel, founded in 1920.
- histogram — a graph of a frequency distribution in which rectangles with bases on the horizontal axis are given widths equal to the class intervals and heights equal to the corresponding frequencies.
- historian — an expert in history; authority on history.
- horntails — Plural form of horntail.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- hydrastis — goldenseal (def 2).
- ingathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingather.
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- katharsis — Alt form catharsis.
- kshatriya — a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- marsh tit — a small European songbird, Parus palustris, with a black head and greyish-brown body: family Paridae (tits)
- martyrish — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- mithraism — an ancient Persian religion in which Mithras was worshiped, involving secret rituals to which only men were admitted: a major competitor of Christianity in the Roman empire during the 2nd and 3rd centuries a.d.
- nightjars — Plural form of nightjar.
- orthoaxis — the axis in a crystal
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- parthians — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
- physiatry — physical medicine.
- rankshift — (in systemic linguistics) to use a unit as a constituent of another unit of the same or lower rank on the rank scale, as in using the phrase next door within the phrase the boy next door or the clause that you met yesterday within the phrase the girl that you met yesterday.
- ratherish — fairly, moderately
- reichsrat — German History. the upper house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- reichstag — the lower house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
- 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.
- scratchie — a scratchcard
- 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.
- shaharith — the religious service celebrated by Jews every morning.
- 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.
- shirttail — the part of a shirt below the waistline.
- shorthair — a domestic cat with a coat of short, thick hair; a cat of a shorthaired breed.
- sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
- stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
- starlight — the light emanating from the stars.