9-letter words containing s, h, i, t, o
- oughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outrights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outright.
- outshined — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outshines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outshine.
- outweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outweigh.
- overshirt — a pullover sport shirt, worn outside the waistband of a skirt or pair of slacks.
- oversight — an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
- pantihose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- 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.
- phosphite — (loosely) a salt of phosphorous acid.
- photodisk — a disk for use in a computer that contains photographs or can have photographs stored on it in a digitally coded manner
- photonics — the study and technology of the use of light for the transmission of information.
- photopsia — a rare disease of the eye's retina that results in the perception of flashes of light
- pilotfish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pirithoüs — a prince of the Lapiths, who accomplished many great deeds with his friend Theseus
- pistachio — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- psychotic — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rightmost — farthest to the right side
- sailcloth — any of various fabrics, as of cotton, nylon, or Dacron, for boat sails or tents.
- sainthood — the character or status of a saint.
- schistose — of, resembling, or in the form of schist.
- scholiast — an ancient commentator on the classics.
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- scotching — scutch (defs 2, 4).
- scotophil — living and flourishing in darkness.
- 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.
- shift out — (character) (SO, Control-N, ASCII 14) The character which was used to "shift out" of an alternate character set on some ancient teletypes, reversing the effect of the Shift In (SI, ASCII 15) character.
- shiftwork — a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks
- shit-hole — a very bad place; a disgusting place
- shithouse — a privy; outhouse.
- shorthair — a domestic cat with a coat of short, thick hair; a cat of a shorthaired breed.
- shortlist — a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
- shot silk — silk woven to give a changing colour effect
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- shotpoint — A shotpoint is a place at the surface of the Earth where a seismic source is activated.
- shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
- sialolith — a hard deposit occurring in a salivary gland
- 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
- slingshot — a Y -shaped stick with an elastic strip between the prongs for shooting stones and other small missiles.