9-letter words containing s, t, h
- 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.
- rap sheet — a record kept by law-enforcement authorities of a person's arrests and convictions.
- ratherest — most readily, most willingly
- 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.
- red-short — brittle when at red heat, as iron or steel containing too much sulfur.
- 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.
- rest home — a residential establishment that provides special care for convalescents and aged or infirm persons.
- rest-home — a residential establishment that provides special care for convalescents and aged or infirm persons.
- restretch — to stretch again
- rethondes — a village in N France near Compiègne: armistice ending World War I signed here 1918.
- 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.
- rhymester — a writer of inferior verse; poetaster.
- 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
- 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.
- rochester — John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, 1647–80, English poet and courtier.
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- run short — having little length; not long.
- 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
- sackcloth — sacking.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- sahaptian — a family of North American Indian languages consisting of Sahaptin and Nez Percé
- sailcloth — any of various fabrics, as of cotton, nylon, or Dacron, for boat sails or tents.
- sainthood — the character or status of a saint.
- saintship — the qualities or status of a saint.
- salt bath — a bath of molten salts in which steel can be immersed to soak to a uniform and accurately maintained temperature as part of the process of heat treatment. Different salts are used for different temperatures
- saltchuck — the ocean.
- saltishly — in a saltish manner
- sandhurst — a village in S England, near Reading, W of London: military college.
- saoshyant — the World Savior who will come at the end of time.
- sasquatch — Big Foot.
- scan path — (circuit design) A technique used to increase the controllability and observability of a logic circuit by incorporating "scan registers" into the circuit. Normally these act like flip-flops but they can be switched into a "test" mode where they all become one long shift register. This allows data to be clocked serially through all the scan registers and out of an output pin at the same time as new data is clocked in from an input pin. Using this technique, the state of certain points in the circuit can be examined and modified at any time by suspending normal operation and switching to test mode. If the scan path is placed adjacent to the circuit's input and output pins then this is known as "boundary scan".
- scatheful — causing harm or injury
- schatchen — shadkhan.
- schechter — Solomon, 1847–1915, U.S. Hebraist, born in Romania.
- scheelite — calcium tungstate, CaWO 4 , usually occurring in tetragonal crystals: an important ore of tungsten.
- schematic — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.