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

  • mainsheet — a sheet of a mainsail.
  • makeshift — a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted.
  • 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.
  • mash unit — a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
  • masochist — Psychiatry. a person who has masochism, the condition in which sexual or other gratification depends on one's suffering physical pain or humiliation.
  • matchings — Plural form of matching.
  • matchlist — a list of names, telephone numbers, and related information compiled to help people find others who are willing to share a resource or service, as a car pool.
  • mechanist — a person who believes in the theory of mechanism.
  • megaliths — Plural form of megalith.
  • mineshaft — A vertical hole, sunk down through the strata to reach the mineral which was to be mined.
  • mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
  • mistaught — to teach wrongly or badly.
  • 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.
  • mustachio — a mustache.
  • nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
  • nightcaps — Plural form of nightcap.
  • nightjars — Plural form of nightjar.
  • octastich — a stanza or piece of poetic writing that contains eight lines
  • 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.
  • pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
  • pantheist — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
  • pantihose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
  • parthians — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
  • philistia — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
  • photopsia — a rare disease of the eye's retina that results in the perception of flashes of light
  • physiatry — physical medicine.
  • pistachio — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
  • platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
  • 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.
  • safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
  • sahaptian — a family of North American Indian languages consisting of Sahaptin and Nez Percé
  • sailcloth — any of various fabrics, as of cotton, nylon, or Dacron, for boat sails or tents.
  • sainthood — the character or status of a saint.
  • saintship — the qualities or status of a saint.
  • saltishly — in a saltish manner
  • schematic — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
  • schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
  • scholiast — an ancient commentator on the classics.
  • scratchie — a scratchcard
  • 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.
  • shabbiest — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
  • shaharith — the religious service celebrated by Jews every morning.
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