9-letter words containing t, h, e, s
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- shorthead — a brachycephalic person.
- shortness — having little length; not long.
- 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.
- shot hole — a condition in plants in which small, rounded spots drop out of the leaves, appearing as if the leaves were riddled by shot, resulting from infection or injury.
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
- shrewdest — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- shrillest — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- shulamite — an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13.
- shuttered — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- shvartzer — Yiddish: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. schvartze.
- side with — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- sidelight — an item of incidental information.
- sideshoot — a minor shoot growing from the side of a plant's stem
- sighthole — a hole, as on a quadrant, through which to see or to sight.
- sightless — unable to see; blind.
- sightline — any of the lines of sight between the spectators and the stage or playing area in a theater, stadium, etc.: Some of the sightlines are blocked by columns.
- sightseer — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
- siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
- sixteenth — next after the fifteenth; being the ordinal number for 16.
- sketch in — If you sketch in details about something, you tell them to people.
- sketching — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- sketchpad — sketchbook (def 1).
- slashfest — a film, animated film, or computer game in which victims are killed bloodily using blades
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- sleuthing — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- slightest — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- slipsheet — a sheet so inserted.
- 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.
- smethwick — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- smoothest — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- smotherer — a person or thing that smothers
- soft-shoe — of, relating to, or characteristic of tap dancing done in soft-soled shoes, without taps.
- softbench — An IPSE from Hewlett-Packard.
- something — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- southeast — the point or direction midway between south and east. Abbreviation: SE.
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- southgate — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- southwell — Saint Robert. ?1561–95, English poet and Roman Catholic martyr, who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed for his Jesuit activities. His best-known poem is 'The Burning Babe'
- southwest — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
- spaceshot — a launch of a space vehicle beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- spaghetti — a white, starchy pasta of Italian origin that is made in the form of long strings, boiled, and served with any of a variety of meat, tomato, or other sauces.
- 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.
- splotches — a large, irregular spot; blot; stain; blotch.
- spreathed — sore; chapped
- stagehand — a person who moves properties, regulates lighting, etc., in a theatrical production.