9-letter words containing t, h, r, e
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- shrewdest — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- shrillest — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- shuttered — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- shvartzer — Yiddish: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. schvartze.
- sightseer — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- 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.
- smotherer — a person or thing that smothers
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- 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.
- spreathed — sore; chapped
- stairhead — the top of a staircase; top landing.
- starshine — starlight
- stathenry — the electrostatic unit of inductance, equivalent to 8.9876 × 10 11 henries and equal to the inductance of a circuit in which an electromotive force of one statvolt is produced by a current in the circuit which varies at the rate of one statampere per second.
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- steerhide — the hide of a steer.
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stitchery — needlework.
- 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
- streicher — Julius. 1885–1946, German Nazi journalist and politician, who spread anti-Semitic propaganda as editor of Der Stürmer (1923–45). He was hanged as a war criminal
- stretched — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- stretcher — an act or instance of stretching.
- stretchie — an infant's one-piece garment covering the torso, legs, and feet, made of stretch fabric.
- struthers — a city in NE Ohio, near Youngstown.
- studhorse — a stallion kept for breeding.
- sulphuret — to treat or combine with sulphur
- superheat — the state of being superheated.
- superthin — extremely thin
- tabasheer — dried bamboo sap, used medicinally in the Far East
- tarnished — metal: discolored
- teacherly — characteristic of or pertaining to a teacher; pedagogic.
- tearsheet — a page in a newspaper or periodical that is cut or perforated so that it can be easily torn out
- tee shirt — a lightweight, usually knitted, pullover shirt, close-fitting and with a round neckline and short sleeves, worn as an undershirt or outer garment.
- tee-shirt — T-shirt
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- telegraph — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
- tephigram — a chart depicting variations in atmospheric conditions relative to altitude
- tephroite — a mineral, silicate of manganese, Mn 2 SiO 4 , occurring in orthorhombic crystals.
- ter borch — Gerard [kh-ey-rahrt] /xˈeɪ rɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1617–81, Dutch painter.
- terahertz — one trillion (10 12) hertz. Abbreviation: THz.
- terai hat — a felt sun helmet with a high crown and wide brim, worn especially in the subtropics.
- terebinth — a Mediterranean tree, Pistacia terebinthus, of the cashew family, yielding Chian turpentine.
- tethering — a rope, chain, or the like, by which an animal is fastened to a fixed object so as to limit its range of movement.