9-letter words containing s, t, h, r, i
- rightmost — farthest to the right side
- rightness — correctness or accuracy.
- rightsize — to adjust to an appropriate size: Layoffs will be necessary to rightsize our workforce.
- runesmith — a student, writer, transcriber, or decipherer of runes.
- runtishly — in a runtish manner
- rushlight — a narrow candle, formerly in use, made of the pith of various types of rush dipped in tallow
- scratchie — a scratchcard
- senhorita — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- shaharith — the religious service celebrated by Jews every morning.
- shiftwork — a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks
- shirtband — a band of material sewn into a shirt for stiffening, finishing, or the like, as a neckband to which the collar is sewn or buttoned.
- shirtless — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- shirttail — the part of a shirt below the waistline.
- shit-stir — to make trouble
- shorthair — a domestic cat with a coat of short, thick hair; a cat of a shorthaired breed.
- shortlist — a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- shrillest — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- sightseer — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
- 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.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
- sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
- sprightly — animated or vivacious; lively.
- stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
- starlight — the light emanating from the stars.
- starshine — starlight
- startlish — (of a horse) easily startled
- steerhide — the hide of a steer.
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stinkhorn — any of various rank-smelling, brown-capped mushrooms of the genus Phallus, especially P. impudicus.
- stitchery — needlework.
- storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
- straights — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- streicher — Julius. 1885–1946, German Nazi journalist and politician, who spread anti-Semitic propaganda as editor of Der Stürmer (1923–45). He was hanged as a war criminal
- stretchie — an infant's one-piece garment covering the torso, legs, and feet, made of stretch fabric.
- strictish — fairly strict
- strongish — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- strophoid — a plane curve generated by the loci of points p and pprime; on a straight line that intersects the y-axis at a point n and the minus x-axis at a fixed point q, such that pn = npprime; = on, as on changes, where o is the origin. Equation: y 2 = x 2 (x + a)/(a − x).
- strychnia — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- strychnic — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- sunbright — as bright as the sun, very bright
- superthin — extremely thin
- tahsildar — (in India) a collector for, or official of, the revenue department.
- tarnished — metal: discolored
- tee shirt — a lightweight, usually knitted, pullover shirt, close-fitting and with a round neckline and short sleeves, worn as an undershirt or outer garment.
- tee-shirt — T-shirt
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil