9-letter words containing h, i, l, t
- slightish — rather slight
- slingshot — a Y -shaped stick with an elastic strip between the prongs for shooting stones and other small missiles.
- slipsheet — a sheet so inserted.
- slithered — 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.
- slo pitch — slow pitch
- slo-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- soothlich — truly
- sottishly — in a sottish manner
- spotlight — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- sprightly — animated or vivacious; lively.
- 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.
- stepchild — a child of one's spouse by a previous marriage.
- stoplight — traffic light.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- tahsildar — (in India) a collector for, or official of, the revenue department.
- taillight — a light, usually red, at the rear of an automobile, train, etc.
- tailwheel — a wheel fitted to the rear of a vehicle, esp the landing wheel under the tail of an aircraft
- tall ship — type of large sailing ship
- tallchief — Maria, 1925–2013, U.S. ballet dancer.
- tallowish — resembling tallow; tallow-like
- tchambuli — a member of an indigenous people of Papua New Guinea.
- technical — belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
- tehsildar — person who administrates a tehsil
- telestich — a poem in which the last letters of successive lines form a word, a phrase, or the consecutive letters of the alphabet.
- thalamium — thalamus (def 3).
- thalassic — of or relating to seas and oceans.
- thallious — having a surplus of thallium
- the bible — the sacred writings of the Christian religion, comprising the Old and New Testaments and, in the Roman Catholic Church, the Apocrypha
- the blind — people who are blind
- the blitz — the systematic night-time bombing of Britain in 1940–41 by the German Luftwaffe
- the exile — the period in the 6th cent. b.c. during which the Jews were held captive in Babylonia
- the filth — the police
- the girls — a group of women, esp acquaintances
- the hills — a hilly and often remote region
- the limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
- 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
- the while — at that time
- the-trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
- theologic — of, relating to, or involved with theology: a theological student.
- theralite — a coarse-grained, phaneritic rock composed of labradorite, nepheline, and augite.
- theriacal — of or relating to a theriac, a mixture once thought to be an antidote to poison such as snake venom or treacle
- thessalía — Thessaly
- thickleaf — any of various succulent plants of the crassulaceous genus Crassula, having sessile or short-stalked fleshy leaves
- thieflike — like a thief
- thin film — a film of material only a few microns thick, deposited on a substrate, as in the technology for making integrated circuits.
- thin-film — a film of material only a few microns thick, deposited on a substrate, as in the technology for making integrated circuits.
- thinkable — capable of being thought; conceivable.