8-letter words containing h, o, i
- shootist — a marksman with a pistol or rifle.
- shopgirl — a salesgirl; female store clerk.
- shoplift — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- shopping — a retail store, especially a small one.
- shorting — having little length; not long.
- shortish — rather short.
- shoshoni — Shoshone (defs 2, 3).
- 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.
- show biz — show business.
- showgirl — a woman who appears in the chorus of a show, nightclub act, etc.
- showring — an area where animals are displayed for sale or competition
- showtime — the time at which an entertainment is scheduled to begin.
- sideshow — a minor show or exhibition in connection with a principal one, as at a circus.
- sihanouk — Prince Norodom [nawr-uh-dom,, -duh m] /ˈnɔr əˌdɒm,, -dəm/ (Show IPA), 1922–2004, Cambodian statesman: premier 1952–60; chief of state 1960–70 and 1975–76.
- sinkhole — a hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
- siphoned — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- siphonet — (of aphids) a small siphon on the abdomen by which an aphid emits sticky liquid
- slipshod — careless, untidy, or slovenly: slipshod work.
- sloshing — to splash or move through water, mud, or slush.
- 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.
- snobbish — of, relating to, or characteristic of a snob: snobbish ideas about rank.
- snoutish — rather resembling a snout
- soapdish — a shallow container for a bar of soap, used in a bathroom
- soapfish — any of several serranid fishes of the genus Rypticus, producing a body mucus that gives the skin a soapy quality, as R. saponaceus, inhabiting shallow waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- solidish — rather solid
- solihull — a borough in West Midlands, England, near Birmingham.
- sondheim — Stephen (Joshua) born 1930, U.S. composer and lyricist.
- 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.
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
- 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.
- sorryish — rather sorry
- southing — a cardinal point of the compass lying directly opposite north. Abbreviation: S.
- sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- spoffish — officious or bustling
- 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.
- subhyoid — Also, hyoidal, hyoidean. noting or pertaining to a U -shaped bone at the root of the tongue in humans, or a corresponding bone or collection of bones in animals.
- taizhong — Taichung.
- technion — (body) Israel Institute of Technology. Address: Haifa, Israel.
- thalloid — resembling or consisting of a thallus.
- the lion — the constellation Leo, the fifth sign of the zodiac