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9-letter words containing s, t, h

  • sheet ice — ice frozen in a relatively thin, smooth, and extensive layer on the surface of a body of water.
  • sheet-fed — (of a printing press) fed by and designed to print individual flat sheets of paper.
  • sheetcase — a covering made of sheet material, especially one used for a down comforter.
  • sheetless — lacking sheets
  • sheetlike — resembling a sheet
  • sheetrock — a trademark name for plasterboard or drywall, composed of gypsum enclosed by heavy sheets of paper and used for constructing interior walls and ceilings
  • shelflist — a record of the books and other materials in a library arranged in the order in which the materials are stored on shelves.
  • shell out — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
  • sheltered — protected or shielded from storms, missiles, etc., by a wall, roof, barrier, or the like.
  • shenstone — William, 1714–63, English poet.
  • shift bid — a bid in a suit different from the suit just bid by one's partner.
  • shift key — a typewriter key that determines whether characters are printed in upper or lower case and controls the printing of numbers and symbols.
  • shift out — (character)   (SO, Control-N, ASCII 14) The character which was used to "shift out" of an alternate character set on some ancient teletypes, reversing the effect of the Shift In (SI, ASCII 15) character.
  • shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
  • shiftless — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
  • 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 list — a list of persons held in extreme disfavor.
  • shit-hole — a very bad place; a disgusting place
  • shit-stir — to make trouble
  • shitfaced — very drunk.
  • shithouse — a privy; outhouse.
  • shittiest — inferior or contemptible.
  • shittim's — a tree, said to be an acacia, probably Acacia seyal, that yielded the shittim wood of the Old Testament.
  • shoe tree — shaped insert for footwear
  • shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
  • shoot for — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
  • shoot-off — a final or additional contest to decide the winner in a rifle or pistol competition.
  • shoot-out — gunfight
  • shootable — suitable for being shot
  • shootdown — the attack and destruction of an aircraft in flight.
  • shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
  • shopfront — the area of a shop that faces street
  • short con — any simple confidence game involving a relatively small amount of money.
  • short cut — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • short for — having little length; not long.
  • short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
  • short run — happening or presented for a short period of time: a short-run motion picture.
  • short ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
  • short-cut — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
  • short-day — requiring a short photoperiod.
  • short-run — happening or presented for a short period of time: a short-run motion picture.
  • shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
  • shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
  • shortgown — a short-skirted dress worn by women doing housework
  • shorthair — a domestic cat with a coat of short, thick hair; a cat of a shorthaired breed.
  • shorthand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
  • shorthead — a brachycephalic person.
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