8-letter words containing s, h, e, l, t
- kithless — (obsolete) Not knowing anyone; having no acquaintances or family.
- klatches — Plural form of klatch.
- leathers — Plural form of leather.
- lecythis — any very tall tree of the genus Lecythis
- lecythus — (in ancient Greece) a vase with a narrow neck
- lekythos — an oil jar having an ellipsoidal body, narrow neck, flanged mouth, curved handle extending from below the lip to the shoulder, and a narrow base terminating in a foot: used chiefly for ointments.
- lekythus — lekythos.
- lightens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lighten.
- lighters — Plural form of lighter.
- lightest — a light product, as a beer or cigarette.
- loathers — Plural form of loather.
- luthiers — Plural form of luthier.
- lysithea — a small moon of the planet Jupiter.
- nathless — Alternative form of natheless.
- nutshell — the shell of a nut.
- opheltes — the son of King Lycurgus of Nemea who was killed in infancy by a serpent and in whose memory the Nemean games were held.
- pathless — trackless; untrodden: a pathless forest.
- pesthole — a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease.
- pithless — (of citrus fruit or peel) without any pith
- posthole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- ruthless — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
- selcouth — strange; uncommon.
- 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.
- sheltery — providing shelter
- shetland — Shetland Islands.
- shitless — If someone says that they are scared shitless or bored shitless, they are emphasizing that they are extremely scared or bored.
- shothole — a hole drilled in rock, coal, ore, etc., to hold explosives used in blasting.
- shotwell — James Thomson, 1874–1965, U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator.
- shuttler — a person who weaves
- slathers — to spread or apply thickly: to slather butter on toast.
- slighted — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- slithery — to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise: The box slithered down the chute.
- stealthy — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- stendhal — (Marie Henri Beyle) 1783–1842, French novelist and critic.
- sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
- sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
- switchel — a drink of molasses and water, plus ginger or rum; treacle beer
- teleshop — to engage in teleshopping.
- the last — the final moment
- the self — that which is essential to an individual, esp the mind or soul in Cartesian metaphysics; the ego
- the soil — life and work on a farm; land
- thelitis — inflammation of the nipple.
- themself — Themself is sometimes used instead of 'themselves' when it clearly refers to a singular subject. Some people consider this use to be incorrect.
- thermals — Also, thermic. of, relating to, or caused by heat or temperature: thermal capacity.
- thessaly — a region in E Greece: a former division of ancient Greece. 5208 sq. mi. (14,490 sq. km).
- thewless — cowardly; timid.
- thowless — lacking vigour or spirit
- threshel — a flail or a tool for threshing corn
- throstle — British (chiefly Literary) . the song thrush.
- tilefish — a large, brilliantly colored food fish, Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, of deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean.