9-letter words containing s, t, h, r, i
- kshatriya — a member of the Hindu royal and warrior class above the Vaisyas and below the Brahmans.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- lithosere — a sere originating on rock.
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- 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.
- mirthless — gaiety or jollity, especially when accompanied by laughter: the excitement and mirth of the holiday season.
- misgrowth — an abnormal or distorted growth
- mishanter — a misfortune; mishap.
- mistruths — the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.
- 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.
- motorship — a ship driven by a diesel or other internal-combustion engine.
- nephritis — inflammation of the kidneys, especially in Bright's disease.
- nightjars — Plural form of nightjar.
- northings — Plural form of northing.
- northside — The northern side of a building, street, area etc.
- of theirs — belonging to or associated with them
- orchestic — relating to dance
- orchidist — an orchid grower
- orthoaxis — the axis in a crystal
- orthotics — Also, orthosis. a device or support, especially for the foot, used to relieve or correct an orthopedic problem.
- orthotist — (used with a singular verb) a branch of medicine dealing with the making and fitting of orthotic devices.
- ostriches — Plural form of ostrich.
- otherwise — under other circumstances: Otherwise they may get broken.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outrights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outright.
- overshirt — a pullover sport shirt, worn outside the waistband of a skirt or pair of slacks.
- oversight — an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
- parthians — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
- phrenitis — inflammation of the brain; encephalitis.
- physiatry — physical medicine.
- pirithoüs — a prince of the Lapiths, who accomplished many great deeds with his friend Theseus
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prettyish — quite pretty
- prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- 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
- red shift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- rehnquist — William H(ubbs) [huhbz] /hʌbz/ (Show IPA), 1924–2005, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1972–86; chief justice 1986–2005.
- 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.
- resighted — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- 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.
- rhythmics — rhythmics.
- rhythmist — a person versed in or having a fine sense of rhythm.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rightless — lacking rights