9-letter words containing t, h, e, s
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- post-hole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- posthaste — with the greatest possible speed or promptness: to come to a friend's aid posthaste.
- posthorse — horse kept at an inn or posthouse for use by postriders or for hire to travellers
- posthouse — house or inn where horses were kept for postriders or for hire to travellers
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prettyish — quite pretty
- protheses — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- pythoness — a woman believed to be possessed by a soothsaying spirit, as the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
- 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.
- rhymester — a writer of inferior verse; poetaster.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rightless — lacking rights
- 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.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- runesmith — a student, writer, transcriber, or decipherer of runes.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- 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.
- schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
- schistose — of, resembling, or in the form of schist.
- schmutter — cloth or clothing
- schnittke — Alfred, 1934–1998, Russian composer.
- schnitzel — a cutlet, especially of veal.
- schvartze — a term used by some Jewish people to refer to a black person.
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- scouthery — scorching
- scratcher — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- scratches — Old Scratch; Satan.
- scratchie — a scratchcard