9-letter words containing o, a, t, h, s
- shootable — suitable for being shot
- shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
- short-day — requiring a short photoperiod.
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- shorthair — a domestic cat with a coat of short, thick hair; a cat of a shorthaired breed.
- shorthand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
- shorthead — a brachycephalic person.
- 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.
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- show flat — a newly-build flat that is decorated and furnished for prospective buyers to view
- sialolith — a hard deposit occurring in a salivary gland
- 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.
- 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.
- soothfast — based on the truth; true.
- southeast — the point or direction midway between south and east. Abbreviation: SE.
- southgate — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- southland — a southern area.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- spaceshot — a launch of a space vehicle beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- spot cash — an amount of money paid immediately in cash
- staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
- stakhanov — a city in E Ukraine, W of Lugnask.
- stalworth — stalwart.
- stanchion — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
- staphylo- — uvula
- statehood — the status or condition of being a state, especially a state of the U.S.
- statolith — Zoology. any of the granules of lime, sand, etc., contained within a statocyst.
- stenobath — a stenobathic organism.
- stomachal — a medication that is good for the stomach
- stomacher — a richly ornamented garment covering the stomach and chest, worn by both sexes in the 15th and 16th centuries, and later worn under a bodice by women.
- stomachic — of or relating to the stomach; gastric.
- stonechat — any of several small Old World birds, especially of the genus Saxicola, as S. torquata.
- stonehand — a person who arranges type and imposes pages on an imposing stone
- stonewash — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
- stop bath — an acid bath or rinse for stopping the action of a developer before fixing a negative or print.
- stopwatch — a watch with a hand or hands that can be stopped or started at any instant, used for precise timing, as in races.
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- succotash — a cooked dish of kernels of corn mixed with shell beans, especially lima beans, and, often, with green and sweet red peppers.
- swarthout — Gladys, 1904–69, U.S. soprano.
- sweatshop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.