9-letter words containing s, h, y
- cherkassy — city & port in central Ukraine, on the Dnepr River: pop. 302,000
- chishtiya — a Sufi order of the Indian subcontinent.
- chlamydes — Plural form of chlamys.
- choirboys — Plural form of choirboy.
- cholecyst — the gallbladder
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chop suey — Chop suey is a Chinese-style dish that consists of meat and vegetables that have been stewed together.
- chopsocky — a genre of martial arts film containing superfluous violence
- chrysalid — of or relating to a chrysalis
- chrysalis — A chrysalis is a butterfly or moth in the stage between being a larva and an adult.
- chudskoye — Lakelake on the Estonian-Russian border: with its S extension, Lake Pskov, c. 1,400 sq mi (3,626 sq km)
- chymistry — chemistry.
- coltishly — In a coltish manner.
- copy shop — a business that provides copies of documents or prints documents
- copyholds — Plural form of copyhold.
- cultishly — In a cultish manner.
- currishly — In a currish manner; like a cur or knave.
- cybercash — Funds used in electronic financial transactions, especially over the Internet.
- cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
- cyphonism — An ancient form of punishment involving a sort of wooden pillory by which the victim's neck was bent or weighed downward.
- cystolith — a knoblike deposit of calcium carbonate in the epidermal cells of such plants as the stinging nettle
- daisy ham — a boned and smoked piece of pork from the pig's shoulder
- dashingly — In a dashing manner.
- day shift — a group of workers who work a shift during the daytime in an industry or occupation where a night shift or a back shift is also worked
- daylights — consciousness or wits (esp in the phrases scare, knock, or beat the (living) daylights out of someone)
- 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.
- diaphyses — Plural form of diaphysis.
- diaphysis — the shaft of a long bone
- dihybrids — Plural form of dihybrid.
- diphysite — a person who believes that in Christ two distinct natures, the human and the divine, existed together
- doggishly — In a doggish manner.
- dollishly — In a dollish manner.
- doltishly — In a doltish manner.
- donnishly — In a donnish manner.
- doughboys — Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dronishly — in a droning manner
- dullishly — in a slightly dull manner
- dumpishly — in a downhearted and despondent manner
- duncishly — in a dullard-like manner
- dyschezia — Difficult or painful defecation.
- dysphagia — difficulty in swallowing.
- dysphagic — difficulty in swallowing.
- dysphasia — inability to speak or understand words because of a brain lesion.
- dysphasic — inability to speak or understand words because of a brain lesion.
- dysphemia — any impairment in the ability to speak.
- dysphonia — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
- dysphonic — any disturbance of normal vocal function.
- dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- dysphoric — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.