8-letter words containing h, e, i, s, t
- misteach — to teach wrongly or badly.
- misthrew — Simple past form of misthrow.
- mitscher — Marc Andrew, 1887–1947, U.S. naval officer and aviator.
- mushiest — resembling mush; pulpy.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nighties — Plural form of nightie.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- pasithea — one of the Graces.
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- peatship — the state of being a peat
- peshitta — the principal Syriac version of the Bible.
- phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- pithless — (of citrus fruit or peel) without any pith
- poetship — the state or function of being poet
- postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
- psephite — any coarse rock, as breccia or conglomerate.
- redshift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- redshirt — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
- restitch — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- rightest — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- sci-tech — combining scientific and technical features: sci-tech culture.
- seething — to surge or foam as if boiling.
- selihoth — (used with a plural verb) liturgical prayers serving as expressions of repentance and pleas for God's forgiveness, recited by Jews during the period, usually beginning the preceding week, before Rosh Hashanah, during the period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and on fast days.
- sennight — a week.
- shadiest — abounding in shade; shaded: shady paths.
- shawties — a person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
- shechita — the Jewish method of killing animals for food
- sheeting — Nautical. a rope or chain for extending the clews of a square sail along a yard. a rope for trimming a fore-and-aft sail. a rope or chain for extending the lee clew of a course.
- shehitah — the slaughtering of animals for food by a duly certified person in the manner prescribed by Jewish law.
- shemitic — a Semite.
- shiitake — a large, meaty, black or dark brown mushroom, Lentinus edodes, native to eastern Asia and frequently used in Japanese and Chinese cookery.
- shin bet — the internal security service of Israel
- shipmate — a person who serves with another on the same vessel.
- shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- shithead — a stupid, inept, unlikable, or contemptible person.
- shitless — If someone says that they are scared shitless or bored shitless, they are emphasizing that they are extremely scared or bored.
- shove it — to move along by force from behind; push.
- showtime — the time at which an entertainment is scheduled to begin.
- sidepath — a minor path
- sightsee — to go about seeing places and things of interest: In Rome, we only had two days to sightsee.
- siphonet — (of aphids) a small siphon on the abdomen by which an aphid emits sticky liquid
- sixtieth — next after the fifty-ninth; being the ordinal number for 60.
- slighted — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- slithery — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- smithery — the work, craft, or workshop of a smith.
- smoothie — a person who has a winningly polished manner: He's such a smoothie he could charm the stripes off a tiger.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.