9-letter words containing s, h, c, i
- schnittke — Alfred, 1934–1998, Russian composer.
- schnitzel — a cutlet, especially of veal.
- schofield — John McAllister [muh-kal-i-ster] /məˈkæl ɪ stər/ (Show IPA), 1831–1906, U.S. general.
- scholiast — an ancient commentator on the classics.
- schonbein — Christian Friedrich [kris-tee-ahn free-drikh] /ˈkrɪs tiˌɑn ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1799–1868, Swiss chemist.
- schooling — a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
- schoolkid — a child who attends school
- schreiner — Olive ("Ralph Iron") c1862–1920, English author and feminist.
- schwinger — Julian Seymour, 1918–94, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1965.
- sciamachy — an act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy.
- sciomachy — sciamachy.
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- sciosophy — supposed knowledge of natural or supernatural phenomena or forces, usually based on tradition, as astrology or phrenology.
- scirrhoid — resembling a scirrhus.
- scirrhous — of a hard, fibrous consistency.
- scorching — burning; very hot.
- scotching — scutch (defs 2, 4).
- scotophil — living and flourishing in darkness.
- scratchie — a scratchcard
- scrimshaw — a carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like, made by whalers as a leisure occupation.
- scrunchie — an elastic band covered with gathered fabric, used to fasten the hair, as in a ponytail.
- searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
- selachian — belonging to the Selachii, a group of fishes comprising the sharks, skates, and rays.
- sennachie — a professional storyteller of family genealogy, history, and legend.
- sexaholic — a person who is addicted to sex
- shacharis — Shaharith.
- shambolic — very disorganized; messy or confused: I’ve had a shambolic year, the worst ever.
- shanachie — a professional storyteller of family genealogy, history, and legend.
- shashlick — a dish consisting of kabobs broiled or roasted on a skewer.
- shechinah — Shekhinah.
- shechitah — the slaughtering of animals for food by a duly certified person in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.
- sheeptick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
- sheet ice — ice frozen in a relatively thin, smooth, and extensive layer on the surface of a body of water.
- shelf ice — ice forming part of or broken from an ice shelf.
- shibuichi — a Japanese alloy of copper and silver know for its silver-grey and muted blue and green colours, usually used in ornamentation
- shickered — intoxicated; drunk.
- shipwreck — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shitfaced — very drunk.
- showpiece — something that is displayed or exhibited.
- sickishly — in a sickish manner
- sidecheck — a checkrein passing from the bit to the saddle of a harness.
- siphuncle — (in a nautilus) the connecting tube that passes from the end of the body through all of the septa to the innermost chamber.
- sketch in — If you sketch in details about something, you tell them to people.
- sketching — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- slo pitch — slow pitch
- slo-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
- smethwick — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- smooching — smutch.
- snatching — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- sociopath — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.