8-letter words containing h, o, n, s
- shopping — a retail store, especially a small one.
- shopworn — worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- short on — having little length; not long.
- shorting — having little length; not long.
- shoshone — a river in NW Wyoming, flowing NE into the Big Horn River. 120 miles (193 km) long.
- shoshoni — Shoshone (defs 2, 3).
- shotokan — a popular system of karate based on the principles of Bushido and Zen
- shotting — the act or process of making lead shot in a shot tower.
- shouting — loud cries, yells
- showdown — the laying down of one's cards, face upward, in a card game, especially poker.
- showring — an area where animals are displayed for sale or competition
- shutdown — a shutting down, as of a factory, school, or machine; a termination or suspension of operations, services, or business activity: a partial government shutdown; an emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor.
- 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
- sloshing — to splash or move through water, mud, or slush.
- smithson — James, 1765–1829, English chemist and mineralogist.
- smoothen — to make or become smooth
- snapshot — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- snobbish — of, relating to, or characteristic of a snob: snobbish ideas about rank.
- snoutish — rather resembling a snout
- snowbush — any of several ornamental shrubs having a profusion of white flowers, as Ceanothus cordulatus, of the buckthorn family, native to western North America.
- snowshed — a structure, as over an extent of railroad track on a mountainside, for protection against snow.
- snowshoe — a contrivance that may be attached to the foot to enable the wearer to walk on deep snow without sinking, especially a light, racket-shaped frame across which is stretched a network of rawhide.
- somewhen — sometime.
- 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.
- souchong — a variety of black tea grown in India and Sri Lanka.
- southern — lying toward, situated in, or directed toward the south.
- southing — a cardinal point of the compass lying directly opposite north. Abbreviation: S.
- southron — Southern U.S. southerner (def 2).
- sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- st. john — Andrew, 1862–1928, Australian statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1908–09, 1910–13, 1914–15.
- staghorn — a piece of a stag's antler, especially when used to form objects, decorations, or the like.
- stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- stoneham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- sulphone — any of a class of organic compounds containing the divalent group –SO2 linked to two other organic groups. Certain sulphones are used in the treatment of leprosy and tuberculosis
- sunchoke — Jerusalem artichoke (def 2).
- sunporch — a room with large windows and often a glass roof, built around one of the main entrances to a building
- symphony — Music. an elaborate instrumental composition in three or more movements, similar in form to a sonata but written for an orchestra and usually of far grander proportions and more varied elements. an instrumental passage occurring in a vocal composition, or between vocal movements in a composition. an instrumental piece, often in several movements, forming the overture to an opera or the like.
- synchro- — indicating synchronization
- synthpop — popular music played with synthesizers and having light upbeat melodies and lyrics.
- syphoned — 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.
- thanatos — an ancient Greek personification of death.
- thompson — Benjamin, Count Rumford, 1753–1814, English physicist and diplomat, born in the U.S.
- thornset — set with thorns
- thousand — a cardinal number, 10 times 100.