10-letter words containing h, o, n, s, u
- nursehound — a species of European dogfish, Scyliorrhinus caniculus
- oberhausen — a city in W Germany, in the lower Ruhr valley.
- okuninushi — a son of Susanowo and, in some legends, creator of the world.
- one's hour — a time of success, fame, etc
- onslaughts — Plural form of onslaught.
- open house — a party or reception during which anyone who wishes may visit to share in a celebration, meet a special guest, etc.
- oudtshoorn — a city in the S Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
- oughtlings — at all
- outgushing — Present participle of outgush.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- outshining — Present participle of outshine.
- phototonus — the normal condition of sensitiveness to light in organisms or their organs.
- pincushion — a small cushion into which pins are stuck until needed.
- polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- push along — to go away
- push money — a cash inducement provided by a manufacturer or distributor for a retailer or his staff, to reward successful selling
- pushbutton — A pushbutton machine or process is controlled by means of buttons or switches.
- rhinovirus — any of a varied and widespread group of picornaviruses responsible for many respiratory diseases, including the common cold.
- 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 spin — hard or unfair treatment
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- roundheels — a prostitute.
- roundhouse — a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- schongauer — Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), c1430–91, German engraver and painter.
- school run — The school run is the journey that parents make each day when they take their children to school and bring them home from school.
- scruncheon — (in Newfoundland) a small crisp piece of fried pork fat
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- shellbound — encased in, or confined to, a shell
- shikibuton — futon.
- shotgunner — a person who is skilled with a shotgun
- shout down — silence by speaking more loudly than
- shoutingly — by way of shouting
- showground — outdoor events venue
- sighthound — gazehound.
- slung shot — a weight, as a stone or a piece of metal, fastened to a short strap, chain, or the like, and used as a weapon.
- snakemouth — rose pogonia.
- snowplough — A snowplough is a vehicle which is used to push snow off roads or railway lines.
- sound head — a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.
- sound hole — an opening in the soundboard of a musical stringed instrument, as a violin or lute, for increasing the soundboard's capacity for vibration.
- sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
- south bend — a city in N Indiana.
- south node — the descending node of the moon.
- southbound — traveling southward.
- southerner — a native or inhabitant of the south.
- southernly — southerly.
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sulphonium — the hypothetical univalent radical -SH3