11-letter words containing h, o, n, s, u
- push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
- pythonesque — denoting a kind of humour that is absurd and unpredictable; zany; surreal
- quonset hut — A Quonset hut is a military hut made of metal. The walls and roof form the shape of a semi-circle.
- ramgunshoch — surly; bad-tempered; rude
- ranch house — the house of the owner of a ranch, usually of one story and with a low-pitched roof.
- rhamnaceous — belonging to the Rhamnaceae, the buckthorn family of plants.
- rhizanthous — bearing flowers directly from the root.
- sam houston — Sam(uel) 1793–1863, U.S. soldier and political leader: president of the Republic of Texas 1836–38 and 1841–44.
- school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
- schrödinbug — (jargon, programming) /shroh'din-buhg/ (MIT, from the Schrödinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics) A design or implementation bug that doesn't manifest until someone reading the source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked, at which point it stops working until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds impossible, it happens; some programs have harboured schrödinbugs for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.
- shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- shogun bond — a bond sold on the Japanese market by a foreign institution and denominated in a foreign currency
- shootaround — an informal match or practice session
- shop around — compare prices
- show around — guide round a new place
- shower unit — fitted shower
- showjumping — horseriding event
- shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- shunt motor — A shunt motor is a direct current motor whose two windings are in parallel, with the same voltage across each.
- shunt-wound — noting a motor or a generator that has the field circuit connected in parallel with the armature winding.
- sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
- smoothhound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- song thrush — a common, European songbird, Turdus philomelos.
- sound check — an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer
- sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
- south devon — a breed of large red cattle originally from South Devon
- south downs — a range of low hills, from Hampshire to East Sussex, in S England.
- south ogden — a town in N Utah.
- south sudan — a landlocked republic in NE Africa, in the Sahel region; formerly part of Sudan: became independent after a referendum in 2011, following a long civil war. Languages: English, Arabic. Religions: Christian, animist. Currency: South Sudanese Pound. Capital: Juba. Pop: 11 090 104 (2013 est). Area: 644 329 sq km (248 777 sq miles)
- south yemen — Yemen (def 3).
- southampton — Henry Wriothesley [rahy-uh ths-lee] /ˈraɪ əθs li/ (Show IPA), 3rd Earl of, 1573–1624, English nobleman, soldier, and patron of writers, including William Shakespeare.
- southernism — a pronunciation, expression, or behavioral trait characteristic of the U.S. South.
- southernize — to make or become southern
- southington — a town in central Connecticut.
- southlander — a person from the south
- springhouse — a small storehouse built over a spring or part of a brook, for keeping such foods as meat and dairy products cool and fresh.
- stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
- sundry shop — (in Malaysia) a shop, similar to a delicatessen, that sells predominantly Chinese foodstuffs
- sure enough — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- sure-enough — real; genuine.
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- surgeonship — the position or responsibility of a surgeon
- symphonious — harmonious; in harmonious agreement or accord.
- synchronous — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.