10-letter words containing h, o, u, s
- outgushing — Present participle of outgush.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- outmatches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmatch.
- outreaches — Plural form of outreach.
- outshining — Present participle of outshine.
- outshouted — Simple past tense and past participle of outshout.
- outstretch — to stretch forth; extend: to outstretch one's hand in welcome.
- outthrusts — Plural form of outthrust.
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overthrust — a thrust fault with a low dip and a large slip.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- pest house — a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
- phosphorus — Chemistry. a solid, nonmetallic element existing in at least three allotropic forms, one that is yellow, poisonous, flammable, and luminous in the dark, one that is red, less poisonous, and less flammable, and another that is black, insoluble in most solvents, and the least flammable. The element is used in forming smoke screens, its compounds are used in matches and phosphate fertilizers, and it is a necessary constituent of plant and animal life in bones, nerves, and embryos. Symbol: P; atomic weight: 30.974; atomic number: 15; specific gravity: (yellow) 1.82 at 20°C, (red) 2.20 at 20°C, (black) 2.25–2.69 at 20°C.
- phosphuret — a phosphate
- phototonus — the normal condition of sensitiveness to light in organisms or their organs.
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pincushion — a small cushion into which pins are stuck until needed.
- pious hope — a wish or desire that is unlikely to be fulfilled
- play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- pole house — a timber house built on a steep section and supported by heavy debarked logs in long piles
- polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
- polyphemus — a Cyclops who was blinded by Odysseus.
- porphyrous — of or relating to porphyry
- portsmouth — a seaport in S Hampshire, in S England, on the English Channel: chief British naval station.
- possum haw — a shrub, Ilex decidua, of the southeastern U.S., having leaves that are hairy on the upper surface and glossy, red fruit.
- post house — a house or inn keeping post horses.
- post-truth — of or relating to a culture in which appeals to the emotions tend to prevail over facts and logical arguments
- posthumous — arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award for bravery.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- powerhouse — Electricity. a generating station.
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- prothallus — prothallium.
- pump house — a building where pumps and other pumping equipment have been installed
- push about — to bully; keep telling (a person) what to do in a bossy manner
- push along — to go away
- push broom — a wide broom with a long handle, pushed by hand and used for sweeping large areas.
- 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.
- pyrophorus — a substance which ignites when exposed to air
- quebrachos — Plural form of quebracho.
- 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
- rough-sawn — (of wood) used as originally cut, without smoothing or sanding: shingles of rough-sawn cedar.
- roughhouse — rough, disorderly playing, especially indoors.