9-letter words containing s, h, r, e
- humorless — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- humorsome — Alternative form of humoursome.
- humphries — (John) Barry. born 1934, Australian comic actor and writer, best known for creating the character Dame Edna Everage
- hungriest — Superlative form of hungry.
- hunkerism — a member of the conservative faction in the Democratic Party in New York State, 1845–48.
- hunteress — Obsolete form of huntress.
- husbander — A person who husbands resources.
- hybridise — to cause to produce hybrids; cross.
- hydrogels — Plural form of hydrogel.
- hydrogens — Plural form of hydrogen.
- hydrolase — an enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis.
- hydrolyse — Alternative spelling of hydrolyze.
- hydroseed — to sow (a field, lawn, etc.) with seed by distribution in a stream of water propelled through a hose.
- hydrosere — a sere originating in water.
- hydrosome — the entire body of a compound hydrozoan.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- hypernews — A Hypertext system from the Turing Institute Glasgow, based on NeWS.
- hypernyms — Plural form of hypernym.
- hysterics — Usually, hysterics. a fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping; hysteria.
- hysteroid — resembling hysteria.
- ingathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ingather.
- inhearsed — Simple past tense and past participle of inhearse.
- inshelter — to put in a shelter
- inshrined — Simple past tense and past participle of inshrine.
- inshrines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inshrine.
- interdash — to intersperse with hasty strokes of a pen or other writing instrument
- intermesh — any knit, woven, or knotted fabric of open texture.
- irish elk — an extinct deerlike mammal of the genus Megaceros (Megaloceros), of the Pleistocene Epoch, having in the male extremely large, broad antlers.
- irish sea — a part of the Atlantic between Ireland and England.
- irish yew — a variety of yew, Taxus baccata stricta, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having upright branches and dark green foliage with color variations.
- isherwood — Christopher (William Bradshaw) [brad-shaw] /ˈbræd ʃɔ/ (Show IPA), 1904–86, English poet, novelist, and playwright; in the U.S. since 1938.
- isochrone — a line, as on a map, connecting all points having some property simultaneously, as in having the same delay in receiving a radio signal from a given source or requiring the same time to be reached by available transportation from a given center.
- isotheres — Plural form of isothere.
- isotherms — Plural form of isotherm.
- jibberish — Alternative spelling of gibberish.
- job share — If two people job share, they share the same job by working part-time, for example one person working in the mornings and the other in the afternoons.
- job-share — to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- kerchiefs — Plural form of kerchief.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- koshering — Present participle of kosher.
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- lasherism — (jargon, algorithm) (Harvard) A program that solves a standard problem (such as the Eight Queens Puzzle or implementing the life algorithm) in a deliberately nonstandard way. Distinguished from a crock or kluge by the fact that the programmer did it on purpose as a mental exercise. Such constructions are quite popular in exercises such as the Obfuscated C contest, and occasionally in retrocomputing. Lew Lasher was a student at Harvard around 1980 who became notorious for such behaviour.
- laughters — the action or sound of laughing.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- lee shore — a shore toward which the wind blows.
- lickerish — fond of and eager for choice food.
- lithosere — a sere originating on rock.