9-letter words containing s, t, h, r
- shorthorn — one of an English breed of red, white, or roan beef cattle, some having short horns and some naturally hornless.
- shortlist — a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
- shortness — having little length; not long.
- shortstop — Baseball. the position of the player covering the area of the infield between second and third base. a fielder who covers this position.
- shortwall — pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.
- 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
- shotproof — able to withstand shot
- shottsuru — a fish sauce used in Japanese cookery.
- shrewdest — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- shrillest — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- 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.
- 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.
- smotherer — a person or thing that smothers
- solothurn — a city in NW Switzerland, on the Aar River: capital of canton of Solothurn.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- southbury — a town in S Connecticut.
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- southport — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England: resort.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- 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.
- spreathed — sore; chapped
- sprightly — animated or vivacious; lively.
- stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
- stalworth — stalwart.
- starlight — the light emanating from the stars.
- starshine — starlight
- startlish — (of a horse) easily startled
- 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.
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- 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.
- stockhorn — pibgorn.
- stomacher — a richly ornamented garment covering the stomach and chest, worn by both sexes in the 15th and 16th centuries, and later worn under a bodice by women.
- storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- straights — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- straphang — to travel as a straphanger.
- straw hat — of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
- straw-hat — designating, of, or having to do with a summer theater or summer theaters