9-letter words containing g, u, s, h
- shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
- shore bug — any of various small, predaceous hemipterous insects of the family Saldidae, some of which are burrowers, commonly occurring along grassy shores of ponds, streams, brackish lakes, and seacoasts.
- shrug off — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
- shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
- shuttling — a device in a loom for passing or shooting the weft thread through the shed from one side of the web to the other, usually consisting of a boat-shaped piece of wood containing a bobbin on which the weft thread is wound.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- sleuthing — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- sloughing — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
- slungshot — a weight attached to the end of a cord and used as a weapon
- sourdough — leaven, especially fermented dough retained from one baking and used, rather than fresh yeast, to start the next.
- southgate — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- sphagnous — pertaining to, abounding in, or consisting of sphagnum.
- squashing — to press into a flat mass or pulp; crush: She squashed the flower under her heel.
- stag hunt — a hunt carried out to find and kill stags
- staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
- stoughton — a city in E Massachusetts.
- sugarbush — an evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, of the cashew family, native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having light yellow flowers in short, dense spikes and hairy, dark-red fruit.
- sunbright — as bright as the sun, very bright
- superhigh — extremely high
- surcharge — an additional charge, tax, or cost.
- the glums — gloomy feelings
- theurgist — a system of beneficent magic practiced by the Egyptian Platonists and others.
- thrusting — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
- toughness — strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
- unghostly — not resembling a ghost
- unhasting — not rushing
- unshaking — the act of a person or thing that shakes.
- unsharing — the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group.
- unsighing — not lamenting
- unsighted — having functional vision; not blind.
- unsightly — distasteful or unpleasant to look at: an unsightly wound; unsightly disorder.
- voguishly — in a voguish manner