9-letter words containing s, o, t, h
- scotophil — living and flourishing in darkness.
- scouthery — scorching
- scouthood — (sometimes initial capital letter) the state of being a scout, especially a Boy Scout or a Girl Scout.
- 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
- 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.
- set forth — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- shabbatot — Jewish Sabbaths and festivals
- shahtoosh — a soft wool that comes from the Himalyan ibex
- shake out — If you shake out a cloth or a piece of clothing, you hold it by one of its edges and move it up and down one or more times, in order to open it out, make it flat, or remove dust.
- share out — distribute fairly
- sheepcote — a pen or covered enclosure for sheep.
- sheetrock — a trademark name for plasterboard or drywall, composed of gypsum enclosed by heavy sheets of paper and used for constructing interior walls and ceilings
- 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.
- shenstone — William, 1714–63, English poet.
- 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.
- shoe tree — shaped insert for footwear
- shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
- shoot for — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
- shoot-off — a final or additional contest to decide the winner in a rifle or pistol competition.
- shoot-out — gunfight
- shootable — suitable for being shot
- shootdown — the attack and destruction of an aircraft in flight.
- shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
- shopfront — the area of a shop that faces street
- short con — any simple confidence game involving a relatively small amount of money.
- short cut — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- short for — having little length; not long.
- short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
- short run — happening or presented for a short period of time: a short-run motion picture.
- short ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- short-cut — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- short-day — requiring a short photoperiod.
- short-run — happening or presented for a short period of time: a short-run motion picture.
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- shortgown — a short-skirted dress worn by women doing housework
- shorthair — a domestic cat with a coat of short, thick hair; a cat of a shorthaired breed.
- shorthand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
- shorthead — a brachycephalic person.
- shorthorn — one of an English breed of red, white, or roan beef cattle, some having short horns and some naturally hornless.
- shortlist — a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
- shortness — having little length; not long.
- shortstop — Baseball. the position of the player covering the area of the infield between second and third base. a fielder who covers this position.
- 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.
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.