9-letter words containing h, a, i, l, s, t
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitals — Plural form of hospital.
- inhalants — Plural form of inhalant.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- isophotal — relating to an isophote or isophotes, or to a diagram on which isophotes are represented
- ladysmith — a city in W Natal, in the E Republic of South Africa: besieged by Boers 1889–1900.
- lathyrism — a disorder of humans and domestic animals caused by ingestion of the seeds of some legumes of the genus Lathyrus and marked by spastic paralysis and pain.
- lightfast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
- lithiasis — the formation or presence of stony concretions, as calculi, in the body.
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- loathings — Plural form of loathing.
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- lustihead — lustiness
- mahlstick — a stick with a padded tip used to support an artist's working hand.
- mailshots — Plural form of mailshot.
- matchlist — a list of names, telephone numbers, and related information compiled to help people find others who are willing to share a resource or service, as a car pool.
- megaliths — Plural form of megalith.
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- philistia — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
- safelight — a darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- sailcloth — any of various fabrics, as of cotton, nylon, or Dacron, for boat sails or tents.
- saltishly — in a saltish manner
- scholiast — an ancient commentator on the classics.
- shavetail — U.S. Army. a second lieutenant.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- shirttail — the part of a shirt below the waistline.
- shulamite — an epithet meaning “princess,” applied to the bride in the Song of Solomon 6:13.
- sialolith — a hard deposit occurring in a salivary gland
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- starlight — the light emanating from the stars.
- startlish — (of a horse) easily startled
- statolith — Zoology. any of the granules of lime, sand, etc., contained within a statocyst.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- tahsildar — (in India) a collector for, or official of, the revenue department.
- tall ship — type of large sailing ship
- tallowish — resembling tallow; tallow-like
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- thalassic — of or relating to seas and oceans.
- thallious — having a surplus of thallium
- 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
- thessalía — Thessaly
- thio salt — a salt of a thio acid.
- watchlist — a list of persons or things to watch for possible action in the future: a watch list of possible growth stocks.
- whipstall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
- whiptails — Plural form of whiptail.