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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.
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