9-letter words containing w, i, s, h
- jewfishes — Plural form of jewfish.
- kickshaws — Plural form of kickshaw.
- kiswahili — Swahili (def 2).
- lowlights — Plural form of lowlight.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- mawkishly — In a mawkish manner.
- mess with — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- misgrowth — an abnormal or distorted growth
- mishawaka — a city in N Indiana, near South Bend.
- narrowish — somewhat narrow
- nonwhites — Plural form of nonwhite.
- otherwise — under other circumstances: Otherwise they may get broken.
- outweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outweigh.
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- schleswig — a seaport in N Germany, on the Baltic.
- schwinger — Julian Seymour, 1918–94, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1965.
- scrimshaw — a carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like, made by whalers as a leisure occupation.
- sei whale — a rorqual, Balaenoptera borealis, inhabiting all seas: now greatly reduced in number.
- set width — (in automatic typesetting) the width measured by the lowercase alphabet of a particular size and font of type.
- shadowily — in a shadowy way or manner
- shadowing — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
- shiftwork — a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks
- shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
- shipwreck — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- shoalwise — in shoals or large groups
- shoreview — a town in E Minnesota.
- show bill — an advertising poster.
- show girl — a woman who appears in the chorus of a show, nightclub act, etc.
- showbizzy — characteristic of showbiz
- showiness — the property or characteristic of being showy.
- showpiece — something that is displayed or exhibited.
- shrewlike — a woman of violent temper and speech; termagant.
- side with — one of the surfaces forming the outside of or bounding a thing, or one of the lines bounding a geometric figure.
- sidewheel — either of a pair of paddle wheels on the sides of a vessel.
- skewwhiff — not straight; askew
- slideshow — a presentation of photographic slides, or images on a transparent base, placed in a projector and viewed sequentially on a screen.
- smethwick — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- smithtown — a city on N Long Island, in SE New York.
- somewhile — at some former time.
- squawfish — any of several large, voracious cyprinid fishes of the genus Ptychocheilus, inhabiting rivers of the western U.S. and Canada: the Colorado squawfish, P. lucius, is endangered.
- stay with — to spend some time in a place, in a situation, with a person or group, etc.: He stayed in the army for ten years.
- swampfish — a small fish, Chologaster cornuta, related to the cavefishes, inhabiting swamps and streams of the Atlantic coastal plain, having small but functional eyes and almost transparent skin.
- sweetfish — a sweet-tasting omnivorous fish, native to Japan
- swellfish — puffer (def 2).
- swineherd — a person who tends swine.
- swinehood — the quality or condition of a swine
- switch on — the act or process of switching on an ignition, light, appliance, etc.
- switch-on — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- switching — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.