8-letter words containing h, i, p, s, t
- 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.
- psychist — a person who believes in psychic phenomena
- sahaptin — a member of an American Indian people of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
- sapphist — a lesbian
- shift up — When you shift up, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a higher gear.
- ship out — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- shipmate — a person who serves with another on the same vessel.
- shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- shoplift — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- sidepath — a minor path
- siphonet — (of aphids) a small siphon on the abdomen by which an aphid emits sticky liquid
- sophists — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- starship — a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
- steepish — somewhat or a little steep
- strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
- sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
- superhit — an extremely popular song, film, CD, play, etc
- tankship — a ship for carrying bulk cargoes of liquids; tanker.
- the pits — a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground: pits caused by erosion; clay pits.
- the ship — the constellation Argo
- the yips — (in golf) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance
- thespiae — a city at the foot of Mount Helicon where, according to mythology, the Muses performed their games.
- thespian — (often lowercase) pertaining to tragedy or to the dramatic art in general.
- thespius — the founder of the city of Thespiae and the father, by Megamede, of 50 daughters, all of whom bore sons to Hercules.
- thlipsis — compression or constriction by an outside cause, esp of the blood vessels or another part of the body
- tipsheet — a list of advice or tips
- township — a unit of local government, usually a subdivision of a county, found in most midwestern and northeastern states of the U.S. and in most Canadian provinces.
- tranship — transship
- treeship — the existence of a tree
- triphase — operating in three phases
- twinship — the condition of being a twin or twins
- whippets — Plural form of whippet.
- whipster — (informal, dated) a scholastic often pedantic person, wise guy.