9-letter words containing n, s, h, e
- brashness — impertinent; impudent; tactless: a brash young man.
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- bunkhouse — (in the US and Canada) a building containing the sleeping quarters of workers on a ranch
- burnished — You can describe something as burnished when it is bright or smooth.
- bush bean — any of various low, erect, bushy forms of the common garden bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
- bush wren — a wren, Xenicus longipes, occurring in New Zealand: family Xenicidae
- bush-line — the contour at which the growth of the bush ceases
- bushelman — a person who alters or repairs garments; busheler.
- bushiness — a bushy quality or state
- butchness — the state of being butch
- by inches — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
- caithness — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland, now part of Highland
- cathepsin — a proteolytic enzyme responsible for the autolysis of cells after death
- cavendish — tobacco that has been sweetened and pressed into moulds to form bars
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- cephalins — Plural form of cephalin.
- chaconnes — Plural form of chaconne.
- chainless — having no chain or chains
- chanciest — Superlative form of chancy.
- chandlers — Plural form of chandler.
- changeups — Plural form of changeup.
- chanteuse — a female singer, esp in a nightclub or cabaret
- chantress — a female chanter or singer
- chantries — Plural form of chantry.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- chariness — the state of being chary
- chastened — subdued; humbled
- chastener — to inflict suffering upon for purposes of moral improvement; chastise.
- chatlines — Plural form of chatline.
- chavannes — Puvis de [py-vee duh] /püˈvi də/ (Show IPA), Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre.
- cheapness — The state of being cheap.
- cheongsam — a straight dress, usually of silk or cotton, with a stand-up collar and a slit in one side of the skirt, worn by Chinese women
- chestnuts — Plural form of chestnut.
- chewiness — the condition of necessitating chewing or of being difficult to chew
- chi meson — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
- childness — the nature or character of a child
- childrens — (intentionally incorrect, nonstandard) Plural form of child.
- chillness — The state of being chilly.
- chimineas — Plural form of chiminea.
- chin rest — a device fixed to the top of a violin or viola to provide a firm rest for the player's chin.
- china sea — part of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of China: divided by Taiwan into the East China Sea in the north and the South China Sea in the south
- chinese's — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- chisel in — to force oneself upon others without being asked or welcomed
- chiseling — a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade, often made of steel, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, etc.
- chitinase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyzes chitin.
- christens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of christen.
- christine — a feminine name: dim. Chris, Chrissie, Tina; var. Christina, Christy
- cleanthes — ?300–?232 bc, Greek philosopher: succeeded Zeno as head of the Stoic school
- clinchers — Plural form of clincher.