9-letter words containing s, h, i, l, o
- jailhouse — a jail or building used as a jail.
- joshingly — In a joshing manner; teasingly.
- kill shot — a decisive smashing or punching of a ball with the hand or a racquet such that it is virtually unreturnable, as in volleyball, handball, or badminton.
- lemonfish — the cobia.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- lightsome — emitting or reflecting light; luminous.
- limehouse — a dock district in the East End of London, England, once notorious for its squalor: formerly a Chinese quarter.
- liquorish — fond of and eager for choice food.
- lithesome — bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible: the lithe body of a ballerina.
- lithocyst — a sac, containing otoliths, found in many invertebrates, supposedly connected to hearing and orientation
- lithosere — a sere originating on rock.
- loaferish — (of a person) idle, lazy
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- loathings — Plural form of loathing.
- locksmith — a person who makes or repairs locks and keys.
- longhairs — Plural form of longhair.
- longships — Plural form of longship.
- lopoliths — Plural form of lopolith.
- lordships — Plural form of lordship.
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- loutishly — In a loutish manner.
- lowlights — Plural form of lowlight.
- lustihood — lustiness; vigor.
- mailshots — Plural form of mailshot.
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- michelson — Albert Abraham, 1852–1931, U.S. physicist, born in Prussia (now Poland): Nobel prize 1907.
- millhouse — a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.
- mobbishly — in a mobbish, chaotic or turbulent manner
- molehills — Plural form of molehill.
- molochise — sacrifice to deity
- monoliths — Plural form of monolith.
- monthlies — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- moonishly — in a moonish manner
- nicholson — Ben, 1894–1982, British abstract painter.
- nightsoil — Alternative spelling of night soil.
- nineholes — a game in which the ground, or another object, is drilled with nine holes, each with its own scoring value, and a ball is rolled into them
- noirishly — In a noirish manner.
- ogreishly — in the manner of an ogre
- oil shale — a black or dark-brown shale or siltstone rich in bitumens, from which shale oil is obtained by destructive distillation.
- oil sheik — a sheik who is involved in or who controls the supply of petroleum from Arab countries to other countries
- oily fish — any variety of fish, such as the sardine, mackerel, salmon or trout; that has oils throughout its body rather than stored solely in the liver
- old irish — the Irish language before c900. Abbreviation: OIr.
- oligarchs — Plural form of oligarch.
- oughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- phaseolin — a type of proteid that is present in the kidney bean
- phenolics — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the condensation of phenol, or of a phenol derivative, with an aldehyde, especially formaldehyde: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and plastics and as adhesives for sandpaper and plywood.
- philhorse — the horse, in a group of horses that are used to pull a carriage etc, which is at the back and nearest the object being pulled
- pile shoe — an iron casting shaped to a point and fitted to a lower end of a wooden or concrete pile
- pilotfish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- polish up — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.