8-letter words containing h, o, i, s, t
- outsight — the ability to see and understand external things clearly.
- pathosis — a diseased condition.
- phaistos — an ancient city in S central Crete: site of Minoan palace; Linear A tablets and important pottery objects unearthed here.
- phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- phytosis — a disease which is caused by a vegetable parasite, for example a fungus
- pisolith — a pea-size calcareous concretion, larger than an oolith, aggregates of which constitute a pisolite.
- poetship — the state or function of being poet
- postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
- roswitha — Hrotsvitha.
- schizont — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) a cell developed from a trophozoite, which undergoes multiple fission to form merozoites.
- scottish — Also, Scots. of or relating to Scotland, its people, or their language.
- 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.
- ship out — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- shit-hot — very good
- shitload — a lot of something; a large amount.
- shitwork — bad work; tedious, badly-paid work
- shkotzim — a term used especially by a Jew to refer to a boy or man who is not Jewish.
- shooting — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
- shootist — a marksman with a pistol or rifle.
- shoplift — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- shorting — having little length; not long.
- shortish — rather short.
- shotting — the act or process of making lead shot in a shot tower.
- shouting — loud cries, yells
- shove it — to move along by force from behind; push.
- showtime — the time at which an entertainment is scheduled to begin.
- siphonet — (of aphids) a small siphon on the abdomen by which an aphid emits sticky liquid
- smithson — James, 1765–1829, English chemist and mineralogist.
- smoothie — a person who has a winningly polished manner: He's such a smoothie he could charm the stripes off a tiger.
- snoutish — rather resembling a snout
- song hit — a song, usually a pop song, which is well known and which sold well when released. Also called a hit or a hit song.
- soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
- 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.
- southing — a cardinal point of the compass lying directly opposite north. Abbreviation: S.
- stilicho — Flavius [fley-vee-uh s] /ˈfleɪ vi əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 359?–408, Roman general and statesman.
- stockish — like a block of wood; stupid.
- stoutish — rather stout.
- stroheim — Erich von [er-ik] /ˈɛr ɪk/ (Show IPA), 1885–1957, U.S. actor and director, born in Austria.
- strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
- the soil — life and work on a farm; land
- theories — a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity. Synonyms: principle, law, doctrine.
- theorise — to form a theory or theories.
- theorist — a person who theorizes.
- thomisid — a spider of the family Thomisidae, comprising the crab spiders.
- thymosin — a hormone, produced by the thymus gland, that promotes the development of T cells from stem cells.
- thyrosis — any condition resulting from abnormal functioning of the thyroid gland.
- thyrsoid — having somewhat the form of a thyrsus.
- tithonus — the son of Laomedon of Troy who was loved by the goddess Eos. She asked that he be made immortal but forgot to ask that he be made eternally young. When he aged, she turned him into a grasshopper
- toadfish — any of several thick-headed, wide-mouthed fishes of the family Batrachoididae, as Opsanus tau (oyster toadfish) ranging along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
- tochises — tokus.