9-letter words containing h, o, t
- shortwall — pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- shot hole — a condition in plants in which small, rounded spots drop out of the leaves, appearing as if the leaves were riddled by shot, resulting from infection or injury.
- shot silk — silk woven to give a changing colour effect
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- shotpoint — A shotpoint is a place at the surface of the Earth where a seismic source is activated.
- shotproof — able to withstand shot
- shottsuru — a fish sauce used in Japanese cookery.
- shouldn't — Shouldn't is the usual spoken form of 'should not'.
- shout out — say aloud
- shout-out — Informal. a quick public expression of thanks, admiration, etc.: I’d like to give a big shout-out to my mom who’s in the audience tonight.
- shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
- show flat — a newly-build flat that is decorated and furnished for prospective buyers to view
- shut down — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
- sialolith — a hard deposit occurring in a salivary gland
- sideshoot — a minor shoot growing from the side of a plant's stem
- sighthole — a hole, as on a quadrant, through which to see or to sight.
- siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
- slap shot — a very powerful, fast-moving shot of the puck on goal made with a full backswing of the stick and an extended follow-through.
- slingshot — a Y -shaped stick with an elastic strip between the prongs for shooting stones and other small missiles.
- slo pitch — slow pitch
- slo-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
- slungshot — a weight attached to the end of a cord and used as a weapon
- smithtown — a city on N Long Island, in SE New York.
- smoothest — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- smoothish — somewhat or fairly smooth
- smotherer — a person or thing that smothers
- snap shot — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- snapshoot — to take a snapshot of (a subject).
- sociopath — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- soft-shoe — of, relating to, or characteristic of tap dancing done in soft-soled shoes, without taps.
- softbench — An IPSE from Hewlett-Packard.
- solothurn — a city in NW Switzerland, on the Aar River: capital of canton of Solothurn.
- something — Informal. a person or thing of some value or consequence: He is really something! This writer has something to say and she says it well.
- songsmith — a writer of songs.
- soothfast — based on the truth; true.
- soothlich — truly
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sophistic — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- sottishly — in a sottish manner
- southbury — a town in S Connecticut.
- southcott — Joanna. 1750–1814, British religious fanatic, who claimed that she would give birth to the second Messiah
- southdown — one of an English breed of sheep, yielding mutton of high quality.
- southeast — the point or direction midway between south and east. Abbreviation: SE.
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.
- southgate — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- southland — a southern area.