8-letter words containing h, u, e, s
- outhouse — an outbuilding with one or more seats and a pit serving as a toilet; privy.
- outshame — to shame greatly or surpass in shamefulness
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- outshone — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- overlush — excessively lush
- pentheus — the grandson of Cadmus and his successor as king of Thebes, who resisted the introduction of the cult of Dionysus. In revenge the god drove him mad and he was torn to pieces by a group of bacchantes, one of whom was his mother
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- phaestus — Phaistos.
- phaseout — an act or instance of phasing out; planned discontinuation or expiration.
- physique — physical or bodily structure, appearance, or development: the physique of an athlete.
- pishogue — sorcery; witchcraft; black magic.
- pothouse — (formerly) a small tavern or pub
- pseudish — pretentious
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pushover — Informal. anything done easily.
- quasheba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- queerish — Somewhat queer.
- quenches — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
- rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
- resought — to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.
- rosebush — a shrub that bears roses.
- roughest — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- rushmore — Mount, a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota that is a memorial (Mount Rushmore National Memorial) having 60-foot (18-meter) busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, carved into its face between 1927 and 1941, from a design by and under the direction of Gutzon Borglum. 5600 feet (1707 meters).
- ruthless — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
- saguache — Sawatch.
- schedule — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- schellum — a person or an animal that is a rascal or villain
- schubert — Franz [frahnts] /frɑnts/ (Show IPA), 1797–1828, Austrian composer.
- schuller — Gunther, born 1925, U.S. composer, conductor, and music writer and educator.
- schuster — Leon. born 1951, South African comedian and film maker. His films include You Must Be Joking (1986) and Mr Bones (2001)
- schuyler — Philip John, 1733–1804, American statesman and general in the Revolutionary War.
- scouther — to scorch or singe
- seahound — a dogfish
- selcouth — strange; uncommon.
- sequoyah — 1770?–1843, Cherokee Indian scholar: inventor of a syllabary for writing Cherokee.
- shake up — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- shake-up — a thorough change in a business, department, or the like, as by dismissals, demotions, etc.
- shakeout — an elimination or winnowing out of some competing businesses, products, etc., as a result of intense competition in a market of declining sales or rising standards of quality.
- shameful — causing shame: shameful behavior.
- shape up — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- shape-up — an act or instance of shaping up.
- shauchle — to distort the shape of (something)
- shea nut — the seed of the shea tree and the source of shea butter.
- shed out — to separate off (sheep that have lambed) and move them to better pasture
- shelduck — a sheldrake.
- shelfful — an amount adequate to fill a shelf: They buy canned goods by the shelfful.
- shellful — the amount held in a shell; the amount needed to fill a shell; a small amount
- shenzhou — any of a series of manned Chinese spacecraft
- shore up — a supporting post or beam with auxiliary members, especially one placed obliquely against the side of a building, a ship in drydock, or the like; prop; strut.