9-letter words containing r, o, s, h, d
- offshored — Simple past tense and past participle of offshore.
- old irish — the Irish language before c900. Abbreviation: OIr.
- orchidist — an orchid grower
- orthopods — an orthopedist.
- overheads — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
- overshade — to cast shade over.
- red-short — brittle when at red heat, as iron or steel containing too much sulfur.
- rethondes — a village in N France near Compiègne: armistice ending World War I signed here 1918.
- rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhizopods — any of numerous protozoa of the widespread subphylum (or superclass) Rhizopoda, characterized by a pseudopod and comprising most members of the phylum Sarcodina, including the amebas and foraminifers.
- rhodesian — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- rhodesoid — relating to or resembling Rhodesian man
- rhodopsin — a bright-red photosensitive pigment found in the rod-shaped cells of the retina of certain fishes and most higher vertebrates: it is broken down by the action of dim light into retinal and opsin.
- road rash — grazing of the skin as a result of falling off a bicycle, skateboard, etc, onto a hard surface
- road show — touring performance or display
- road-show — of or relating to road shows.
- roadhouse — an inn, dance hall, tavern, nightclub, etc., located on a highway, usually beyond city limits.
- rodfisher — an angler or a person who fishes with a fishing rod
- roughshod — shod with horseshoes having projecting nails or points.
- sash cord — a cord for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
- schroeder — ˈGerhard (ˈgɛʀhɑʀt) ; gerˈhärt) 1944- ; Ger. politican: chancellor of Germany (1998-2005)
- scirrhoid — resembling a scirrhus.
- scrooched — to crouch, squeeze, or huddle (usually followed by down, in, or up).
- shed roof — a roof having a single slope.
- shed room — a storage room.
- shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
- shopboard — a shop counter or work bench
- shorebird — a bird that frequents seashores, estuaries, etc., as the snipe, sandpiper, plover, and turnstone; a limicoline bird.
- shoreside — land along a shore.
- shoreward — Also, shorewards. toward the shore or land.
- shoreweed — a tufty aquatic perennial, Littorella uniflora, of the plantain family, that forms underwater mats but usually flowers only on muddy margins
- shorewood — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- short-day — requiring a short photoperiod.
- shorthand — a method of rapid handwriting using simple strokes, abbreviations, or symbols that designate letters, words, or phrases (distinguished from longhand).
- shorthead — a brachycephalic person.
- show card — an advertising placard or card.
- showbread — the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5–9.
- sourdough — leaven, especially fermented dough retained from one baking and used, rather than fresh yeast, to start the next.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- strophoid — a plane curve generated by the loci of points p and pprime; on a straight line that intersects the y-axis at a point n and the minus x-axis at a fixed point q, such that pn = npprime; = on, as on changes, where o is the origin. Equation: y 2 = x 2 (x + a)/(a − x).
- studhorse — a stallion kept for breeding.
- swordfish — a large, marine food fish, Xiphias gladius, having the upper jaw elongated into a swordlike structure.
- the lords — the House of Lords in the British Parliament
- the sword — violence, warfare
- theorised — to form a theory or theories.
- threshold — the sill of a doorway.
- undershot — having the front teeth of the lower jaw projecting in front of the upper teeth, as a bulldog.
- wadsworth — a city in N Ohio.
- washboard — a rectangular board or frame, typically with a corrugated metallic surface, on which clothes are rubbed in the process of washing.