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9-letter words containing s, h, e, t, o

  • senhorita — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
  • set forth — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
  • shake out — If you shake out a cloth or a piece of clothing, you hold it by one of its edges and move it up and down one or more times, in order to open it out, make it flat, or remove dust.
  • share out — distribute fairly
  • sheepcote — a pen or covered enclosure for sheep.
  • sheetrock — a trademark name for plasterboard or drywall, composed of gypsum enclosed by heavy sheets of paper and used for constructing interior walls and ceilings
  • shell out — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
  • shenstone — William, 1714–63, English poet.
  • shit-hole — a very bad place; a disgusting place
  • shithouse — a privy; outhouse.
  • shoe tree — shaped insert for footwear
  • shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
  • shootable — suitable for being shot
  • short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
  • shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
  • shorthead — a brachycephalic person.
  • shortness — having little length; not long.
  • 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.
  • shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
  • shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
  • shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
  • 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
  • smoothest — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
  • smotherer — a person or thing that smothers
  • soft-shoe — of, relating to, or characteristic of tap dancing done in soft-soled shoes, without taps.
  • softbench — An IPSE from Hewlett-Packard.
  • 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.
  • sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
  • 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.
  • southwell — Saint Robert. ?1561–95, English poet and Roman Catholic martyr, who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed for his Jesuit activities. His best-known poem is 'The Burning Babe'
  • southwest — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
  • spaceshot — a launch of a space vehicle beyond the earth's atmosphere.
  • splotches — a large, irregular spot; blot; stain; blotch.
  • statehood — the status or condition of being a state, especially a state of the U.S.
  • stenobath — a stenobathic organism.
  • sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
  • stokehold — Also, stokehold [stohk-hohld] /ˈstoʊkˌhoʊld/ (Show IPA). fireroom.
  • stokehole — Also, stokehold [stohk-hohld] /ˈstoʊkˌhoʊld/ (Show IPA). fireroom.
  • 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.
  • stonechat — any of several small Old World birds, especially of the genus Saxicola, as S. torquata.
  • stonefish — a tropical scorpion fish, Synanceja verrucosa, having dorsal-fin spines from which a deadly poison is discharged.
  • stonehand — a person who arranges type and imposes pages on an imposing stone
  • stoneshot — a stone's throw or the distance a person can throw a stone
  • stonewash — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
  • storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
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