8-letter words containing s, h, e, t
- northers — Plural form of norther.
- nuthouse — a mental hospital; insane asylum.
- nutshell — the shell of a nut.
- nymphets — a young nymph.
- one-shot — a magazine, brochure, or the like that is published only one time, with no subsequent issues intended, usually containing articles and photographs devoted to one topical subject.
- 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.
- oreshoot — a rich concentration in an orebody.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- orthoses — Plural form of orthosis.
- outhouse — an outbuilding with one or more seats and a pit serving as a toilet; privy.
- outshame — to shame greatly or surpass in shamefulness
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outshone — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- overshot — driven over the top of, as by water passing over from above.
- pasithea — one of the Graces.
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- pathless — trackless; untrodden: a pathless forest.
- pathoses — a diseased condition.
- pathspec — pathname
- peatship — the state of being a peat
- pentheus — the grandson of Cadmus and his successor as king of Thebes, who resisted the introduction of the cult of Dionysus. In revenge the god drove him mad and he was torn to pieces by a group of bacchantes, one of whom was his mother
- peshitta — the principal Syriac version of the Bible.
- pesthole — a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease.
- pet shop — a shop selling animals intended as pets
- phaestus — Phaistos.
- phaseout — an act or instance of phasing out; planned discontinuation or expiration.
- pheasant — any of numerous large, usually long-tailed, Old World gallinaceous birds of the family Phasianidae, widely introduced.
- phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- photoset — photocompose.
- physeter — a member of the Physeter genus of creatures that includes the sperm whale
- pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- pithless — (of citrus fruit or peel) without any pith
- poetship — the state or function of being poet
- postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
- posthole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
- pothouse — (formerly) a small tavern or pub
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
- prophets — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- psephite — any coarse rock, as breccia or conglomerate.
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- redshift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- redshirt — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
- redshort — (of metal, iron, steel, etc) to become brittle at red-hot temperatures
- resketch — to sketch again
- resmooth — to make smooth again
- resought — to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
- restitch — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- rheostat — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.