9-letter words containing s, h, e, t, o, p
- phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
- phonetist — a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
- phosphate — Chemistry. (loosely) a salt or ester of phosphoric acid. a tertiary salt of orthophosphoric acid, as sodium phosphate.
- phosphite — (loosely) a salt of phosphorous acid.
- photolyse — to cause to undergo or to undergo photolysis
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- post-hole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- posthaste — with the greatest possible speed or promptness: to come to a friend's aid posthaste.
- posthorse — horse kept at an inn or posthouse for use by postriders or for hire to travellers
- posthouse — house or inn where horses were kept for postriders or for hire to travellers
- protheses — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- pythoness — a woman believed to be possessed by a soothsaying spirit, as the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- sheepcote — a pen or covered enclosure for sheep.
- siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- spaceshot — a launch of a space vehicle beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- splotches — a large, irregular spot; blot; stain; blotch.
- storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
- sweatshop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- sweetshop — a shop solely or largely selling sweets, esp boiled sweets
- tap shoes — shoes worn by tap-dancers which are equipped with taps that make a rhythmic sound when the shoes are used for dancing
- telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
- the mopes — low spirits
- the polls — the place where people vote during an election
- the ropes — the fence made of rope that is around the edge of the area where a boxing or wrestling match takes place
- theosophy — any of various forms of philosophical or religious thought based on a mystical insight into the divine nature.
- tisiphone — one of the Furies.
- top shelf — of highest quality
- top-shell — any marine gastropod mollusc of the mainly tropical Old World family Trochidae, having a typically brightly coloured top-shaped or conical shell
- two-phase — diphase.
- upholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- zoophytes — Plural form of zoophyte.