10-letter words containing h, i, r, s, u
- ischuretic — (of a medicine) curing ischuria
- isochroous — having the same color throughout.
- kieselguhr — diatomaceous earth.
- languisher — One who languishes.
- lithuresis — the passage of gravel in the urine.
- malnourish — Lb transitive To feed insufficiently, to cause malnutrition.
- michurinsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Ryazan.
- nail brush — small brush for cleaning finger- and toe-nails
- neighbours — Plural form of neighbour.
- nourishing — promoting or sustaining life, growth, or strength: a nourishing diet.
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- prepublish — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- publishers — a publishing company
- purchasing — buying
- pursership — the position of purser
- queer fish — strange person
- relinquish — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rheumatism — any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
- rhinovirus — any of a varied and widespread group of picornaviruses responsible for many respiratory diseases, including the common cold.
- rhoicissus — any plant of the climbing genus Rhoicissus, related to and resembling cissus, esp R. rhomboidea (grape ivy), grown for its shiny evergreen foliage: family Vitaceae
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- rough fish — any fish that is not valued as a sport fish or considered a significant source of food by sport fishers.
- rough spin — hard or unfair treatment
- rudderfish — any of various fishes having the habit of following behind ships, as a pilot fish.
- ruffianish — like a ruffian
- rush light — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- russophile — a person who is friendly to, admires, or prefers Russia or Russian customs, institutions, etc.
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- sea urchin — any echinoderm of the class Echinoidea, having a somewhat globular or discoid form, and a shell composed of many calcareous plates covered with projecting spines.
- semichorus — half of a chorus; part of a chorus to be sung by a portion but not all of the singers
- shin guard — a protective covering, usually of leather or plastic and often padded, for the shins and sometimes the knees, worn chiefly by catchers in baseball and goalkeepers in ice hockey.
- shuddering — trembling or quivering with fear, dread, cold, etc.
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- spherulite — a rounded aggregate of radiating crystals found in obsidian and other glassy igneous rocks.
- spike-rush — any perennial plant of the temperate cyperaceous genus Eleocharis, occurring esp by ponds, and having underground stems, narrow leaves, and small flowers
- sprightful — sprightly.
- squarishly — in a squarish manner
- squirarchy — squirearchy.
- squirearch — a member of the squirearchy.
- stoutherie — theft
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- struthious — resembling or related to the ostriches or other ratite birds.
- subphrenic — underneath the diaphragm
- suckerfish — remora.
- sulphurise — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur.
- sulphurize — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound