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9-letter words containing the

  • the madam — the lady of the house
  • the mafia — an international secret organization founded in Sicily, probably in opposition to tyranny. It developed into a criminal organization and in the late 19th century was carried to the US by Italian immigrants
  • the mains — the main distribution network for water, gas, or electricity
  • the media — all the means of communication, as newspapers, radio, and TV, that provide the public with news, entertainment, etc., usually along with advertising
  • the merse — a fertile lowland area of SE Scotland, in the Scottish Borders, north of the Tweed
  • the minch — a channel of the Atlantic divided into the North Minch between the mainland of Scotland and the Isle of Lewis, and the Little Minch between the Isle of Skye and Harris and North Uist
  • the mopes — low spirits
  • the noose — death by hanging
  • the norse — the Norwegians
  • the north — any area lying in or towards the north
  • the novel — the literary genre represented by novels
  • the order — the dress, equipment, or formation directed for a particular purpose or undertaking
  • the other — the remaining (one or ones in a group of which one or some have been specified)
  • the pinch — sharp, painful, or extreme stress, need, etc
  • the pinta — one of the three ships commanded by Columbus on his first voyage to America (1492)
  • the pipes — the bagpipes
  • the polls — the place where people vote during an election
  • the press — the printed media
  • the races — a series of contests of speed between horses (or sometimes greyhounds) over a set course at prearranged times; a race meeting
  • the rains — the season of heavy rainfall, esp in the tropics
  • the raven — a lyric poem (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe.
  • the right — the right-hand side
  • the river — the fifth and final community card to be dealt in a round of Texas hold 'em
  • 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 rough — the part of the course bordering the fairways where the grass is untrimmed
  • the rules — the neighbourhood around certain prisons (esp the Fleet and King's Bench prison) in which trusted prisoners were allowed to live under specified restrictions
  • the salii — a group of Franks who settled in the Netherlands in the 4th century ad and later conquered large areas of Gaul, esp in the north
  • the score — the actual situation; the true facts
  • the scrub — a remote place, esp one where contact with people can be avoided
  • the shits — diarrhoea
  • the sidhe — the inhabitants of fairyland; fairies
  • the small — an object, person, or group considered to be small
  • the sound — a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand (Denmark), linking the Kattegat with the Baltic: busy shipping lane; spanned by a bridge in 2000. Length of the strait: 113 km (70 miles). Narrowest point: 5 km (3 miles)
  • the south — any area lying in or towards the south
  • the stage — the theatre as a profession
  • the stake — a stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc.
  • the stans — a region in Central Asia that consists of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan
  • the strap — a beating with a strap as a punishment
  • the sudan — a region stretching across Africa south of the Sahara and north of the tropical zone: inhabited chiefly by Negroid tribes rather than Arabs
  • the swanz — the women's international soccer team of New Zealand
  • the swiss — the people of Switzerland
  • the sword — violence, warfare
  • the thick — the busiest or most intense part
  • the thing — a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
  • the trots — diarrhoea
  • the twins — the constellation Gemini, the third sign of the zodiac
  • the twist — a modern dance popular in the 1960s, in which couples vigorously twist the hips in time to rhythmic music
  • the union — the United States of America, specif. when regarded as a federal union
  • the usual — the habitual or usual drink, meal, etc
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