9-letter words containing s, h, o, r, t
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
- drop shot — (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball or shuttlecock so softly hit that it falls to the playing surface just after clearing the net.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- ellsworth — Lincoln1880-1951; U.S. polar explorer
- escheator — a person appointed to deal with escheats
- eurotrash — fashionable Europeans, traveling or living abroad, of a type regarded variously as pretentious, shallow, irresponsible, parasitic, etc.
- exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
- for short — having little length; not long.
- foresheet — the sheet of a headsail.
- foreshoot — The leading shoot.
- foresight — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forsaketh — Archaic third-person singular form of forsake.
- forsythia — a shrub belonging to the genus Forsythia, of the olive family, native to China and southeastern Europe, species of which are cultivated for their showy yellow flowers, which blossom on the bare branches in early spring.
- fortieths — Plural form of fortieth.
- fresh out — newly short of sth
- frontlash — an action or opinion that is in reaction to a backlash.
- frostfish — either of two North American fishes, the tomcod of the Atlantic Ocean or the round whitefish, that appear when frost sets in.
- frothless — without froth
- ghost car — an unmarked police car
- ghostlier — Comparative form of ghostly.
- goatherds — Plural form of goatherd.
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- growthist — an advocate of the importance of economic growth
- gütersloh — a town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 95 928 (2003 est)
- hailstorm — a storm with hail.
- hardstone — (arts) precious stone or semi-precious stone used to make intaglio, mosaics etc.
- harmonist — a member of a celibate religious sect that emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1803.
- hartshorn — the antler of a hart, formerly used as a source of ammonia.
- haustoria — a projection from the hypha of a fungus into the organic matter from which it absorbs nutrients.
- hawthorns — Plural form of hawthorn.
- heartsome — giving cheer, spirit, or courage: a heartsome wine.
- heartsore — heartsick.
- hectorism — the character or actions of a hector
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- herborist — herbalist.
- here's to — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- herodotus — 484?–425? b.c, Greek historian.
- hesitator — Alternative spelling of hesitater.
- heteroses — Plural form of heterosis.
- heterosex — heterosexuality.
- heterosis — the increase in growth, size, fecundity, function, yield, or other characters in hybrids over those of the parents.
- hircosity — the quality of being like a goat
- 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.
- historied — abounding in notable history; having an illustrious past; storied: Italy is a richly historied land.
- histories — the branch of knowledge dealing with past events.
- historify — to make something part of history or to tell the history of something