9-letter words containing t, h, e, s
- scutcheon — escutcheon.
- se'nnight — a week.
- sea chest — a fitting in a hull below the water line, for admitting or discharging water.
- sea fight — a fight between ships at sea.
- sea heath — a small tough perennial plant, Frankenia laevis, of Eurasian salt marshes, having minute leaves and pink flowers: family Frankeniaceae
- seaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- segholate — a noun in Hebrew that has a long vowel in the first syllable and a short seghol in the second syllable
- self-hate — to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- 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.
- set forth — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- set width — (in automatic typesetting) the width measured by the lowercase alphabet of a particular size and font of type.
- seventhly — as the seventh point; linking what follows to the previous statements, as in a speech or argument
- shabbiest — impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- shaftless — lacking a shaft
- shake out — If you shake out a cloth or a piece of clothing, you hold it by one of its edges and move it up and down one or more times, in order to open it out, make it flat, or remove dust.
- shamateur — a sportsperson who is officially an amateur but accepts payment
- shamefast — shamefaced.
- share out — distribute fairly
- shark net — a net for catching sharks
- sharp-set — eager to satisfy the appetite, especially for food.
- shattered — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
- shea tree — an African tree, Butyrospermum parkii, of the sapodilla family, bearing a round, smooth-skinned fruit that contains one or more seeds yielding shea butter.
- sheatfish — a large, freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis, inhabiting rivers in central and eastern Europe, sometimes reaching a weight of 400 pounds (181.4 kg).
- sheathing — the act of a person who sheathes.
- shechitah — the slaughtering of animals for food by a duly certified person in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.
- sheepcote — a pen or covered enclosure for sheep.
- sheeptick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
- 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 key — a typewriter key that determines whether characters are printed in upper or lower case and controls the printing of numbers and symbols.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shiftless — lacking in resourcefulness; inefficient; lazy.
- shirtless — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- shit-hole — a very bad place; a disgusting place
- shitfaced — very drunk.
- shithouse — a privy; outhouse.
- shittiest — inferior or contemptible.
- shoe tree — shaped insert for footwear
- shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
- shootable — suitable for being shot
- short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket