9-letter words containing t, h, r, e, s, o
- overhaste — excessive haste
- overhasty — excessively hasty; rash: overhasty judgment.
- overshirt — a pullover sport shirt, worn outside the waistband of a skirt or pair of slacks.
- overshoot — to shoot or go over, beyond, or above; miss: The missile overshot its target.
- overshort — having little length; not long.
- oversight — an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- posthorse — horse kept at an inn or posthouse for use by postriders or for hire to travellers
- 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.
- red-short — brittle when at red heat, as iron or steel containing too much sulfur.
- 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.
- 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.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rochester — John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, 1647–80, English poet and courtier.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- scouthery — scorching
- seaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- 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.
- share out — distribute fairly
- 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
- shoe tree — shaped insert for footwear
- short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
- 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.
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- smotherer — a person or thing that smothers
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stomacher — a richly ornamented garment covering the stomach and chest, worn by both sexes in the 15th and 16th centuries, and later worn under a bodice by women.
- storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- studhorse — a stallion kept for breeding.
- the cross — the cross on which Jesus was put to death
- the lords — the House of Lords in the British Parliament
- the norse — the Norwegians
- the roost — a powerful current caused by conflicting tides around the Shetland and Orkney Islands
- the ropes — the fence made of rope that is around the edge of the area where a boxing or wrestling match takes place
- the score — the actual situation; the true facts
- the sword — violence, warfare
- the trots — diarrhoea