9-letter words containing s, h, e, i, t
- sea fight — a fight between ships at sea.
- 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.
- set width — (in automatic typesetting) the width measured by the lowercase alphabet of a particular size and font of type.
- shabbiest — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
- sheatfish — a large, freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis, inhabiting rivers in central and eastern Europe, sometimes reaching a weight of 400 pounds (181.4 kg).
- sheathing — the act of a person who sheathes.
- 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.
- sheetlike — resembling a sheet
- shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
- shift key — a typewriter key that determines whether characters are printed in upper or lower case and controls the printing of numbers and symbols.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shiftless — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- shirtless — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- shit-hole — a very bad place; a disgusting place
- shitfaced — very drunk.
- shithouse — a privy; outhouse.
- shittiest — inferior or contemptible.
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
- shrillest — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- shulamite — an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13.
- side with — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- sidelight — an item of incidental information.
- sideshoot — a minor shoot growing from the side of a plant's stem
- sighthole — a hole, as on a quadrant, through which to see or to sight.
- sightless — unable to see; blind.
- sightline — any of the lines of sight between the spectators and the stage or playing area in a theater, stadium, etc.: Some of the sightlines are blocked by columns.
- sightseer — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
- siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
- sixteenth — next after the fifteenth; being the ordinal number for 16.
- 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.
- sleuthing — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- slightest — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- slipsheet — a sheet so inserted.
- slithered — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- smethwick — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- something — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- 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.
- sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
- sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
- stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
- starshine — starlight
- steamship — a large commercial vessel, especially one driven by steam.
- steerhide — the hide of a steer.
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.