9-letter words containing s, h, r, e
- shoreside — land along a shore.
- shoreview — a town in E Minnesota.
- shoreward — Also, shorewards. toward the shore or land.
- shoreweed — a tufty aquatic perennial, Littorella uniflora, of the plantain family, that forms underwater mats but usually flowers only on muddy margins
- shorewood — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- shorthead — a brachycephalic person.
- shortness — having little length; not long.
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- showbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
- showerful — abundant
- shreading — furring attached to the undersides of rafters.
- shredding — a piece cut or torn off, especially in a narrow strip.
- shredless — without a shred
- shrewdest — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- shrewlike — a woman of violent temper and speech; termagant.
- shrieking — a loud, sharp, shrill cry.
- shrillest — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- shrinkage — the act or fact of shrinking.
- shroffage — the commission charged by a money dealer
- shrubbery — a planting of shrubs: He hit the croquet ball into the shrubbery.
- shrubless — devoid of shrubs
- shuddered — to tremble with a sudden convulsive movement, as from horror, fear, or cold.
- shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
- shuttered — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- shvartzer — Yiddish: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. schvartze.
- sightseer — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
- skew arch — an arch, as at the entrance to a tunnel, having sides, or jambs, that are not at right angles with the face.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- 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.
- smasheroo — a popular success
- smotherer — a person or thing that smothers
- somewhere — in or at some place not specified, determined, or known: They live somewhere in Michigan.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sophomore — a student in the second year of high school or college.
- sore shin — a disease of plant seedlings, characterized by stem cankers that girdle the stem near the soil line, caused by any of several fungi, especially Rhizoctonia solani.
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- spearfish — fish: type of marlin
- spearhead — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
- spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
- spiderish — relating to or resembling a spider
- spreathed — sore; chapped
- stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
- starshine — starlight
- stathenry — the electrostatic unit of inductance, equivalent to 8.9876 × 10 11 henries and equal to the inductance of a circuit in which an electromotive force of one statvolt is produced by a current in the circuit which varies at the rate of one statampere per second.