8-letter words containing d, i, s, h
- shedding — to pour forth (water or other liquid), as a fountain.
- sheikdom — the land or territory under the control of a sheik.
- sheridan — Philip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
- shidduch — an arranged marriage
- shimmied — an American ragtime dance marked by shaking of the hips and shoulders.
- shin pad — A shin pad is a thick piece of material that you wear inside your socks to protect the lower part of your leg when you are playing a game such as football or rugby.
- shingled — a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
- shinnied — a simple variety of hockey, played with a ball, block of wood, or the like, and clubs curved at one end.
- shipload — a full load for a ship.
- shipside — the area alongside a ship, as on a pier.
- shipyard — a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.
- shithead — a stupid, inept, unlikable, or contemptible person.
- shitload — a lot of something; a large amount.
- shivered — to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement, etc.
- shoddily — of poor quality or inferior workmanship: a shoddy bookcase.
- shrewdie — a shrewd person
- shrilled — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- sidehead — a heading or subhead run in the margin of a book or magazine.
- sidehill — a hillside.
- sidepath — a minor path
- sideshow — a minor show or exhibition in connection with a principal one, as at a circus.
- siphoned — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- skinhead — a baldheaded man.
- slighted — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- slipshod — careless, untidy, or slovenly: slipshod work.
- soapdish — a shallow container for a bar of soap, used in a bathroom
- solidish — rather solid
- sondheim — Stephen (Joshua) born 1930, U.S. composer and lyricist.
- sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- sphingid — hawk moth.
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
- studfish — either of two killifishes marked with orange spots, Fundulus catenatus (northern studfish) of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers and Ozark Mountains region, or F. stellifer (southern studfish) of the Alabama River.
- subhumid — containing a high amount of water or water vapor; noticeably moist: humid air; a humid climate.
- subhyoid — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
- sulphide — A sulphide is a compound of sulphur with some other chemical elements.
- swadeshi — a political movement in British India that encouraged domestic production and the boycott of foreign, especially British, goods as a step toward home rule.
- switched — a hairpiece consisting of a bunch or tress of long hair or some substitute, fastened together at one end and worn by women to supplement their own hair.
- thomisid — a spider of the family Thomisidae, comprising the crab spiders.
- thyrsoid — having somewhat the form of a thyrsus.
- toadfish — any of several thick-headed, wide-mouthed fishes of the family Batrachoididae, as Opsanus tau (oyster toadfish) ranging along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- tolldish — a dish used to measure out the portion of grain given to a miller as payment for his or her work
- unfished — not used for fishing
- unmodish — passé, unfashionable
- unwished — unwished-for.
- vanished — to disappear from sight, especially quickly; become invisible: The frost vanished when the sun came out.
- wardship — guardianship; custody.
- whistled — Simple past tense and past participle of whistle.
- windship — a ship propelled by wind; a sailing ship