9-letter words containing t, o, s, l, i
- shit-hole — a very bad place; a disgusting place
- shortlist — a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
- shot silk — silk woven to give a changing colour effect
- shoutline — a line of text in an advertisement made prominent to catch attention
- sialolith — a hard deposit occurring in a salivary gland
- sibilator — someone who whistles
- sighthole — a hole, as on a quadrant, through which to see or to sight.
- silicotic — a person suffering from silicosis
- siltation — earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- siltstone — a very fine-grained sandstone, mainly consolidated silt.
- simpleton — an ignorant, foolish, or silly person.
- simulator — a person or thing that simulates.
- sinfjotli — the son of Signy by her brother Sigmund.
- singleton — a person or thing occurring singly, especially an individual set apart from others.
- sky pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
- sky-pilot — a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
- slingshot — a Y -shaped stick with an elastic strip between the prongs for shooting stones and other small missiles.
- slivovitz — a dry, usually colorless, slightly bitter plum brandy from E Europe.
- 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.
- slow gait — (of a horse) a slow rack.
- slow time — standard time.
- socialist — an advocate or supporter of socialism.
- socialite — a socially prominent person.
- sociality — social nature or tendencies as shown in the assembling of individuals in communities.
- sociolect — a variety of a language used by a particular social group; a social dialect.
- soft hail — snow pellets.
- soft line — a position or policy, as in politics, that is moderate and flexible.
- soft-bill — any of numerous birds, as thrushes or tanagers, having relatively weak bills suited for eating insects, soft-bodied animals, and fruit rather than hard seeds.
- soft-boil — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
- solemnity — the state or character of being solemn; earnestness; gravity; impressiveness: the solemnity of a state funeral.
- soleprint — a print of the sole of a foot: often used in hospitals for identifying infants.
- solicited — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- solicitor — a person who solicits.
- solipsist — Philosophy. the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist.
- solitaire — Also called patience. any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner.
- soloistic — relating to soloists or solo parts
- solutizer — any admixture to a substance for promoting or increasing its solubility or that of one or more of its components.
- solvation — a compound formed by the interaction of a solvent and a solute.
- soothlich — truly
- sortilege — the drawing of lots for divination; divination by lot.
- sottishly — in a sottish manner
- spill out — overflow
- spilosite — a form of slate
- split off — separate from group
- split-off — the act of separating or splitting away from something else.
- spoliator — a plunderer
- spot line — a rope or wire hung from a specific place on the gridiron for flying a piece of scenery that could not be flied by the existing battens.
- spotlight — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- st. louis — Saint, 1214?–70, king of France 1226–70.