9-letter words containing s, o, t, h, l
- locksmith — a person who makes or repairs locks and keys.
- long shot — a horse, team, etc., that has little chance of winning and carries long odds.
- lopoliths — Plural form of lopolith.
- lotharios — Plural form of lothario.
- loutishly — In a loutish manner.
- lowlights — Plural form of lowlight.
- lustihood — lustiness; vigor.
- mailshots — Plural form of mailshot.
- malt shop — a retail establishment specializing in serving ice-cream drinks, as malted milks, milk shakes, and sodas.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
- monoliths — Plural form of monolith.
- monthlies — pertaining to a month, or to each month.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- mothballs — a small ball of naphthalene or sometimes of camphor for placing in closets or other storage areas to repel moths from clothing, blankets, etc.
- mouthfuls — Plural form of mouthful.
- mouthless — Without a mouth.
- naphthols — Plural form of naphthol.
- nightsoil — Alternative spelling of night soil.
- old south — the U.S. South before the Civil War.
- onslaught — an onset, assault, or attack, especially a vigorous one.
- oughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- outhustle — (US, sports) To do a better job of hustling than (the other team).
- photolyse — to cause to undergo or to undergo photolysis
- pilotfish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- post-hole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- sackcloth — sacking.
- sailcloth — any of various fabrics, as of cotton, nylon, or Dacron, for boat sails or tents.
- scholiast — an ancient commentator on the classics.
- scotophil — living and flourishing in darkness.
- segholate — a noun in Hebrew that has a long vowel in the first syllable and a short seghol in the second syllable
- shell out — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- shit-hole — a very bad place; a disgusting place
- shootable — suitable for being shot
- short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- shortlist — a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
- shortwall — pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.
- shot hole — a condition in plants in which small, rounded spots drop out of the leaves, appearing as if the leaves were riddled by shot, resulting from infection or injury.
- shot silk — silk woven to give a changing colour effect
- shouldn't — Shouldn't is the usual spoken form of 'should not'.
- shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
- show flat — a newly-build flat that is decorated and furnished for prospective buyers to view
- sialolith — a hard deposit occurring in a salivary gland
- sighthole — a hole, as on a quadrant, through which to see or to sight.
- slap shot — a very powerful, fast-moving shot of the puck on goal made with a full backswing of the stick and an extended follow-through.
- slingshot — a Y -shaped stick with an elastic strip between the prongs for shooting stones and other small missiles.
- slo pitch — slow pitch
- slo-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
- slungshot — a weight attached to the end of a cord and used as a weapon