9-letter words containing h, o, r, s
- schnorrer — a person who habitually borrows or lives at the expense of others with no intention of repaying; sponger; moocher; beggar.
- scholarch — the head of a school.
- scholarly — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- schomburg — Arthur Alfonso, 1874–1938, U.S. scholar and collector of books on black literature and history, born in Puerto Rico.
- schonberg — Arnold [ahr-nuh ld;; German ahr-nuh lt] /ˈɑr nəld;; German ˈɑr nəlt/ (Show IPA), 1874–1951, Austrian composer in the U.S.
- schoolery — something that is taught
- schroeder — ˈGerhard (ˈgɛʀhɑʀt) ; gerˈhärt) 1944- ; Ger. politican: chancellor of Germany (1998-2005)
- scirrhoid — resembling a scirrhus.
- scirrhous — of a hard, fibrous consistency.
- scorching — burning; very hot.
- scouthery — scorching
- scrooched — to crouch, squeeze, or huddle (usually followed by down, in, or up).
- sea horse — any fish of the genus Hippocampus, of the pipefish family, having a prehensile tail, an elongated snout, and a head bent at right angles to the body.
- sea-horse — any fish of the genus Hippocampus, of the pipefish family, having a prehensile tail, an elongated snout, and a head bent at right angles to the body.
- seaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- seborrhea — an excessive and abnormal discharge from the sebaceous glands.
- semaphore — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- senhorita — a Portuguese term of address equivalent to miss, used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a girl or unmarried woman. Abbreviation: Srta.
- serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- set forth — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- shallower — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- share out — distribute fairly
- sharecrop — to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
- shear off — remove by cutting, slice away
- shed roof — a roof having a single slope.
- shed room — a storage room.
- sheetrock — a trademark name for plasterboard or drywall, composed of gypsum enclosed by heavy sheets of paper and used for constructing interior walls and ceilings
- shelfroom — the space on a shelf
- shellwork — decorative work composed of seashells: an elaborate picture frame decorated with shellwork.
- sherborne — a town in S England in Dorset: noted for its medieval abbey, ruined medieval castle, and Sherborne Castle, a mansion built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594. Pop: 9350 (2001)
- shiftwork — a system of employment where an individual's normal hours of work are, in part, outside the period of normal day working and may follow a different pattern in consecutive periods of weeks
- ship over — to enlist or reenlist in the U.S. Navy
- shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
- shipborne — carried on a ship.
- shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
- shoe rack — shelving unit for storing footwear
- shoe tree — shaped insert for footwear
- shoebrush — a brush used in polishing shoes.
- shoemaker — William Lee ("Willie") 1931–2003, U.S. jockey.
- shoot for — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
- shop-worn — worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
- shopboard — a shop counter or work bench
- shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
- shopfront — the area of a shop that faces street
- 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.
- shore fly — any of numerous small black flies of the family Ephydridae, found in damp or marshy locations.
- shorebird — a bird that frequents seashores, estuaries, etc., as the snipe, sandpiper, plover, and turnstone; a limicoline bird.
- shoreless — limitless; boundless.
- shoreline — the line where shore and water meet.
- shoreside — land along a shore.