nine because it said it had nine letters nine has 4 letters take away six six has 3letters one will be left 4-3=1
Manicured. Take away the letter "d" and you still have manicure.
This holds true for almost any nine letter word that is past tense!
another example is "sanitized".
DOZENS.
Because dozens is a six-letter-word, and if you subtract one, you have "dozen", which means six.
Five birds would be left.
Sagebrush has nine letters. Shorthand has nine letters.
Startling. Take away the L and you get starting. Take away the second T and you get staring. Take away the A and you get string. Take away the R and you get sting. Take away the T and you get sing. Take away the G and you get sin. Take away the S and you get in. Take away the N and you get I.
It is September with nine letters.
There are several nine letter words from the letters 'dnateseisors'.They include:AssertionAsteroidsDisastersReadinessResonatesSedationsTiredness
There is no nine letter word that can be spelled with the letters 'aelccdnst'.
Sometimes Chanukkah is spelled with nine letters.
barometer
No continent has eight letters. The closest is Australia with nine letters.
The 12 toothpicks were arranged into the letters N-I-N-E-I, with toothpicks forming an N (3), I (1), N (3), E, (4) and I (1). She throws away the one that makes the last I, so she is left with N-I-N-E. (the letters now spelled out by the remaining eleven 11 toothpicks)
A bull shark has nine letters in its name. An angelfish also requires nine letters to spell out its name. Several other fish needing nine letters are the globefish, the bull trout, and the blue shark.
The penguin is an aquatic bird. The name contains nine letters.