9-letter words containing s, o, t, h
- cost-push — of or relating to cost-push inflation: a proponent of the cost-push theory.
- cothurnus — the buskin worn in ancient Greek tragedy
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crash-hot — extremely impressive
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- crotchets — Plural form of crotchet.
- ctesiphon — an ancient city on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) above Babylon. First mentioned in 221 bc, it was destroyed in the 7th and 8th centuries ad
- cushionet — a small cushion
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- cystolith — a knoblike deposit of calcium carbonate in the epidermal cells of such plants as the stinging nettle
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- dishcloth — a cloth for use in washing dishes; dishrag.
- dishclout — a cloth for use in washing dishes; dishrag.
- dishonest — not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.
- dishtowel — a towel for drying dishes.
- disposeth — Archaic third-person singular form of dispose.
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- dog shift — graveyard shift.
- dogfights — Plural form of dogfight.
- dolmetsch — Arnold. 1858–1940, British musician, born in France. He contributed greatly to the revival of interest in early music and instruments
- doltishly — In a doltish manner.
- dopesheet — a bulletin or list including the names of entries in various horse races, and including information on each entry, as the name, jockey, and past performances.
- doughnuts — Plural form of doughnut.
- downshift — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
- drop shot — (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball or shuttlecock so softly hit that it falls to the playing surface just after clearing the net.
- duathlons — Plural form of duathlon.
- dunk shot — a shot in which a player near the basket jumps with the ball and thrusts it through the basket with one hand or both hands held above the rim. See also slam dunk (def 1).
- duotheism — Belief in and worship in two deities, usually framed as a god and goddess of roughly equal power.
- duotheist — A person who adheres to duotheism.
- dust shot — the smallest size of shot for use in a shotgun.
- dustcloth — a soft, absorbent cloth used for dusting.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- east goth — an Ostrogoth.
- egotheism — The deification of one's own self.
- eightsome — A group of eight persons or things, one more than a sevensome and one less than a ninesome.
- ellsworth — Lincoln1880-1951; U.S. polar explorer
- escheator — a person appointed to deal with escheats
- escovitch — Alternative form of escoveitch.
- eurotrash — fashionable Europeans, traveling or living abroad, of a type regarded variously as pretentious, shallow, irresponsible, parasitic, etc.
- exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
- flesh out — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- fleshpots — fleshpots. places offering luxurious and unrestrained pleasure or amusement: the fleshpots of Las Vegas. luxurious and unrestrained living.
- flush out — run liquid through to clean
- footbaths — Plural form of footbath.
- foothills — a low hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range.