9-letter words containing h, s, u, a
- ayahuasca — a Brazilian plant, Banisteriopsis caapi, that has winged fruits and yields a powerful hallucinogenic alkaloid sometimes used to treat certain disorders of the central nervous system: family Malpighiaceae
- babushkas — Plural form of babushka.
- babyhouse — A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture.
- backhouse — an outdoor privy; outhouse
- badmouths — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth.
- bakehouse — a building or room to bake in; bakery.
- barouches — Plural form of barouche.
- bashfully — In a bashful manner.
- bathhouse — A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths and often other facilities such as a sauna.
- bathybius — a gelatinous substance discovered on the Atlantic seabed, originally thought to be protoplasm, but later discovered to be inorganic
- bauhinias — Plural form of bauhinia.
- beadflush — (of paneling) having panels flush with their stiles and rails and surrounded with a flush bead.
- beadhouse — an almshouse in which inhabitants were expected to pray for the soul of the founder
- bhutanese — a native or inhabitant of Bhutan
- boathouse — A boathouse is a building at the edge of a lake, in which boats are kept.
- brushback — a pitch that narrowly misses the batter
- brushland — an area of land characterized by patchy shrubs and bushes
- brushmark — the indented lines sometimes left by the bristles of a brush on a painted surface
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- bush baby — any of a family (Galagidae) of nocturnal prosimian primates of tropical African forests, with a long, bushy tail and large eyes
- bush bean — any of various low, erect, bushy forms of the common garden bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- bush tram — a railway line in the bush, used to facilitate the entry of workers and the removal of timber
- bush-bash — to clear scrubland
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- bushelman — a person who alters or repairs garments; busheler.
- bushwhack — to ambush
- bushwoman — a woman who lives in the bush
- cantharus — a large two-handled pottery cup
- capuchins — Plural form of capuchin.
- cashed up — having plenty of money
- catch-ups — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- cephalous — having a head
- chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
- changeups — Plural form of changeup.
- chanteuse — a female singer, esp in a nightclub or cabaret
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- charmeuse — a lightweight fabric with a satin-like finish
- chasseurs — Plural form of chasseur.
- chasubles — Plural form of chasuble.
- chaussure — a term for any type of footwear
- chautemps — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.
- chiamussu — Jiamusi.
- churidars — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
- churrasco — meat cooked over an open fire.
- chuvashia — an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation, in the basin of the Volga River in central Russia. 7066 sq. mi. (18,300 sq. km). Capital: Cheboksary.
- clearchus — died 401? b.c.; Spartan general