9-letter words containing h, o, n, s, u
- hounskull — a snoutlike, usually conical, visor attached to a basinet of the 14th century.
- houseline — light cordage used for seizing.
- houstonia — any North American plant, belonging to the genus Houstonia, of the madder family, especially H. caerulea, the common bluet.
- huguenots — a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant.
- humanoids — Plural form of humanoid.
- humongous — extraordinarily large.
- humungous — humongous.
- huskisson — William, 1770–1830, British statesman and financier.
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- hypotonus — Hypotonia.
- in chorus — Music. a group of persons singing in unison. (in an opera, oratorio, etc.) such a group singing choral parts in connection with soloists or individual singers. a piece of music for singing in unison. a part of a song that recurs at intervals, usually following each verse; refrain.
- isanthous — having regular flowers.
- junk shop — a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
- junk shot — a procedure used for stemming the flow of oil from a leaking well in which debris (such as shredded tyres, golf balls, etc) is pumped into the well at high pressure
- kaohsiung — a seaport on SW Taiwan.
- krumhorns — Plural form of krumhorn.
- kuniyoshi — Yasuo [yah-soo-aw] /yɑˈsu ɔ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1953, U.S. painter, born in Japan.
- lichenous — of, relating to, or resembling a lichen.
- longhouse — a communal dwelling, especially of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
- luncheons — Plural form of luncheon.
- monohulls — Plural form of monohull.
- mouthings — Plural form of mouthing.
- murchison — an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.
- mushmelon — muskmelon.
- naphthous — of, relating to or derived from naphtha
- newshound — A newspaper reporter.
- nothosaur — An extinct semiaquatic carnivorous reptile of the Triassic period, having a slender body and long neck, related to the plesiosaurs.
- noughties — The decade from 2000 to 2009.
- nourished — Simple past tense and past participle of nourish.
- nourisher — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- nourishes — Plural form of nourish.
- nut house — a mental hospital; insane asylum.
- onrushing — Rushing or flowing forward.
- onslaught — an onset, assault, or attack, especially a vigorous one.
- oughtlins — in the least; to the least degree.
- oughtness — the state of being right
- outshined — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outshines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outshine.
- penthouse — an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
- push-down — a sudden, downward shift by an aircraft in the direction of the flight path.
- renourish — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
- roughness — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- run short — having little length; not long.
- saphenous — of, relating to, or situated near the saphenous vein.
- scuncheon — sconcheon.
- scutcheon — escutcheon.
- shippound — a Baltic measure of weight roughly equivalent to 300-400 pounds
- shogunate — the office or rule of a shogun.
- short run — happening or presented for a short period of time: a short-run motion picture.
- short-run — happening or presented for a short period of time: a short-run motion picture.