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11-letter words containing h, i, s, t, o

  • sit through — endure the whole of
  • six-shooter — a revolver from which six shots can be fired without reloading.
  • sixth chord — an inversion of a triad in which the second note (next above the root) is in the bass.
  • slow-twitch — of or relating to muscle fiber that contracts relatively slowly and is resistant to fatigue (distinguished from fast-twitch).
  • smithsonite — a native carbonate of zinc, ZnCO 3 , that is an important ore of the metal.
  • sociopathic — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
  • solid south — the states of the southern U.S. that traditionally supported the Democratic Party after the Civil War.
  • somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
  • sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
  • soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
  • sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
  • sothic year — the fixed year of the ancient Egyptians, determined by the heliacal rising of Sirius, and equivalent to 365 days.
  • sottishness — the state of being sottish
  • sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
  • south miami — a town in S Florida.
  • south river — a borough in central New Jersey.
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
  • southernize — to make or become southern
  • southington — a town in central Connecticut.
  • sow thistle — any composite plant belonging to the genus Sonchus, especially S. oleraceus, a weed having thistlelike leaves, yellow flowers, and a milky juice.
  • sphinx moth — hawk moth.
  • spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
  • sport shirt — a long- or short-sleeved soft shirt for informal wear by men, having a squared-off shirttail that may be left outside the trousers, usually worn without a tie.
  • spot height — the elevation of a certain point.
  • standoffish — somewhat aloof or reserved; cold and unfriendly.
  • stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
  • stenobathic — of or relating to marine or freshwater life that can tolerate only limited changes in depth (opposed to eurybathic).
  • stenohaline — (of an aquatic organism) unable to withstand wide variation in salinity of the surrounding water.
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • stephanotis — any vine belonging to the genus Stephanotis, of the milkweed family, having fragrant, waxy, white flowers and leathery leaves.
  • stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
  • stone china — hard earthenware containing china stone.
  • strike home — to deliver an effective blow
  • switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • switched on — turned-on (def 1).
  • switched-on — turned-on (def 1).
  • sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
  • sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • taphonomist — a specialist in taphonomy
  • tchaikovsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), or Pëtr Ilich [Russian pyawtr ee-lyeech] /Russian ˈpyɔtr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1840–93, Russian composer.
  • technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
  • telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
  • tennis shoe — a sports shoe with a rubber sole (usually pebbled) and a stitched canvas upper that laces over the instep.
  • terpsichore — Classical Mythology. the Muse of dancing and choral song.
  • textbookish — suggesting a textbook, especially in literary style or composition.
  • thanatopsis — a view or contemplation of death.
  • the cornish — the natives or inhabitants of Cornwall
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