9-letter words containing s, o, t, h, e
- outhouses — Plural form of outhouse.
- outhustle — (US, sports) To do a better job of hustling than (the other team).
- outscheme — to outdo in scheming
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- outshined — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outshines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outshine.
- outwashes — Plural form of outwash.
- outweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outweigh.
- overhaste — excessive haste
- overhasty — excessively hasty; rash: overhasty judgment.
- overshirt — a pullover sport shirt, worn outside the waistband of a skirt or pair of slacks.
- overshoot — to shoot or go over, beyond, or above; miss: The missile overshot its target.
- overshort — having little length; not long.
- 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.
- pantyhose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- pathogens — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- penthouse — an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
- pesthouse — a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
- phase out — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- 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.
- phosphate — Chemistry. (loosely) a salt or ester of phosphoric acid. a tertiary salt of orthophosphoric acid, as sodium phosphate.
- phosphite — (loosely) a salt of phosphorous acid.
- photolyse — to cause to undergo or to undergo photolysis
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- post-hole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- posthaste — with the greatest possible speed or promptness: to come to a friend's aid posthaste.
- posthorse — horse kept at an inn or posthouse for use by postriders or for hire to travellers
- posthouse — house or inn where horses were kept for postriders or for hire to travellers
- protheses — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- pythoness — a woman believed to be possessed by a soothsaying spirit, as the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
- red-short — brittle when at red heat, as iron or steel containing too much sulfur.
- rest home — a residential establishment that provides special care for convalescents and aged or infirm persons.
- rest-home — a residential establishment that provides special care for convalescents and aged or infirm persons.
- rethondes — a village in N France near Compiègne: armistice ending World War I signed here 1918.
- rheotaxis — oriented movement of an organism in response to a current of fluid, especially water.
- righteous — characterized by uprightness or morality: a righteous observance of the law.
- rochester — John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, 1647–80, English poet and courtier.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- schistose — of, resembling, or in the form of schist.
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- scouthery — scorching
- scutcheon — escutcheon.
- seaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- segholate — a noun in Hebrew that has a long vowel in the first syllable and a short seghol in the second syllable