9-letter words containing s, h, e, r, t
- northside — The northern side of a building, street, area etc.
- northwest — a point on the compass midway between north and west. Abbreviation: NW.
- of theirs — belonging to or associated with them
- ohmmeters — Plural form of ohmmeter.
- orchestic — relating to dance
- orchestra — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
- orchestre — Obsolete form of orchestra.
- ostriches — Plural form of ostrich.
- otherness — the state or fact of being different or distinct.
- otherwise — under other circumstances: Otherwise they may get broken.
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- overhaste — excessive haste
- overhasty — excessively hasty; rash: overhasty judgment.
- overshirt — a pullover sport shirt, worn outside the waistband of a skirt or pair of slacks.
- overshoot — to shoot or go over, beyond, or above; miss: The missile overshot its target.
- overshort — having little length; not long.
- oversight — an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- phrenitis — inflammation of the brain; encephalitis.
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- posthorse — horse kept at an inn or posthouse for use by postriders or for hire to travellers
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prettyish — quite pretty
- protheses — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- rap sheet — a record kept by law-enforcement authorities of a person's arrests and convictions.
- ratherest — most readily, most willingly
- ratherish — fairly, moderately
- red shift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- red-short — brittle when at red heat, as iron or steel containing too much sulfur.
- rehnquist — William H(ubbs) [huhbz] /hʌbz/ (Show IPA), 1924–2005, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1972–86; chief justice 1986–2005.
- 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.
- resighted — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- rest home — a residential establishment that provides special care for convalescents and aged or infirm persons.
- rest-home — a residential establishment that provides special care for convalescents and aged or infirm persons.
- restretch — to stretch again
- rethondes — a village in N France near Compiègne: armistice ending World War I signed here 1918.
- rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
- rhymester — a writer of inferior verse; poetaster.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rightless — lacking rights
- rightness — correctness or accuracy.
- rightsize — to adjust to an appropriate size: Layoffs will be necessary to rightsize our workforce.
- rochester — John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, 1647–80, English poet and courtier.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- runesmith — a student, writer, transcriber, or decipherer of runes.
- schechter — Solomon, 1847–1915, U.S. Hebraist, born in Romania.