9-letter words containing s, i, t, h, o
- isotherms — Plural form of isotherm.
- jokesmith — (jocular) A person who devises jokes.
- 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.
- kórinthos — an ancient city in Greece, on the Isthmus of Corinth: one of the wealthiest and most powerful of the ancient Greek cities.
- lightsome — emitting or reflecting light; luminous.
- 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.
- 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.
- lopoliths — Plural form of lopolith.
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- loutishly — In a loutish manner.
- lowlights — Plural form of lowlight.
- lustihood — lustiness; vigor.
- macintosh — a raincoat made of rubberized cloth.
- maggotish — Maggoty.
- mailshots — Plural form of mailshot.
- masochist — Psychiatry. a person who has masochism, the condition in which sexual or other gratification depends on one's suffering physical pain or humiliation.
- methodism — the doctrines, polity, beliefs, and methods of worship of the Methodists.
- methodist — a member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of the revival of religion led by John Wesley: stresses both personal and social morality and has an Arminian doctrine and, in the U.S., a modified episcopal polity.
- methodius — Saint (Apostle of the Slavs) a.d. c825–885, Greek missionary in Moravia (brother of Saint Cyril).
- misgrowth — an abnormal or distorted growth
- monoliths — Plural form of monolith.
- monostich — a poem or epigram consisting of a single metrical line.
- monteiths — Plural form of monteith.
- monthlies — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- motorship — a ship driven by a diesel or other internal-combustion engine.
- mouthings — Plural form of mouthing.
- mustachio — a mustache.
- mutsuhito — 1852–1912, emperor of Japan 1867–1912.
- nightsoil — Alternative spelling of night soil.
- nightspot — a nightclub.
- nontheism — Any of a range of concepts regarding spirituality and religion which do not include the idea of a deity in the form of a theistic god or gods.
- nontheist — One who is not a theist; an atheist.
- nonwhites — Plural form of nonwhite.
- northings — Plural form of northing.
- northside — The northern side of a building, street, area etc.
- noughties — The decade from 2000 to 2009.
- octastich — a stanza or piece of poetic writing that contains eight lines
- of theirs — belonging to or associated with them
- opisthion — (anatomy) The middle of the posterior, or dorsal, margin of the great foramen of the skull.
- orchestic — relating to dance
- orchidist — an orchid grower
- orthoaxis — the axis in a crystal
- orthotics — Also, orthosis. a device or support, especially for the foot, used to relieve or correct an orthopedic problem.
- orthotist — (used with a singular verb) a branch of medicine dealing with the making and fitting of orthotic devices.
- ostriches — Plural form of ostrich.
- otherwise — under other circumstances: Otherwise they may get broken.