8-letter words containing h, a, t, s
- shvartze — Yiddish: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. schvartze.
- sidepath — a minor path
- silk hat — a tall, cylindrical, black hat covered with silk plush, worn by men for formal dress. Compare beaver1 (def 4), opera hat, top hat.
- slapshot — a very powerful, fast-moving shot of the puck on goal made with a full backswing of the stick and an extended follow-through.
- slathers — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- smartish — rather smart; fairly intelligent or quick-witted: smartish answers on a quiz.
- smash it — to execute a task exceptionally well
- snapshot — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- snatched — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- snatcher — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- so what! — what importance does that have?
- soeharto — 1921–2008, Indonesian army officer and political leader: president 1967–98.
- soft hat — a hat made from soft rather than stiff and structured materials
- softhead — a half-witted or silly person
- somewhat — in some measure or degree; to some extent: not angry, just somewhat disturbed.
- soothsay — to foretell events; predict.
- soutache — a narrow braid, commonly of mohair, silk, or rayon, used for trimming.
- southpaw — a person who is left-handed.
- spa bath — whirlpool, jacuzzi, hot tub
- spathose — spathaceous.
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- spreathe — to chap
- stablish — establish.
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- stancher — staunch2 .
- standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
- stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- starched — a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- starfish — any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid.
- starship — a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
- staubach — Roger Thomas, born 1942, U.S. football player.
- stealthy — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- stemhead — the head of the stem of a vessel
- stendhal — (Marie Henri Beyle) 1783–1842, French novelist and critic.
- stephane — an ancient Greek headdress or crown often depicted in the statuary of various deities
- stephead — dropline.
- stomachs — Anatomy, Zoology. a saclike enlargement of the alimentary canal, as in humans and certain animals, forming an organ for storing, diluting, and digesting food. such an organ or an analogous portion of the alimentary canal when divided into two or more sections or parts. any one of these sections.
- stomachy — paunchy; having a prominent stomach.
- stoneham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- straicht — straight
- straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stramash — an uproar; disturbance.
- straucht — straight
- strawhat — of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
- subshaft — a secondary shaft in a mine
- sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
- sun bath — deliberate exposure of the body to the direct rays of the sun or a sunlamp.
- sunbathe — to take a sunbath.
- swarther — swarthy.