9-letter words containing r, o, s, h
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outrights — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outright.
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- outthrows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outthrow.
- outthrust — thrust or extended outward: a friendly, outthrust hand.
- overbrush — To brush excessively.
- overflush — too flush
- overhaste — excessive haste
- overhasty — excessively hasty; rash: overhasty judgment.
- 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.
- overshare — an instance of this: Get ready for an overshare about his health problems.
- oversharp — too sharp
- overshine — to outshine: One star seemed to overshine all others.
- overshirt — a pullover sport shirt, worn outside the waistband of a skirt or pair of slacks.
- overshoot — to shoot or go over, beyond, or above; miss: The missile overshot its target.
- overshort — having little length; not long.
- oversight — an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- parsonish — like a parson
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- philhorse — the horse, in a group of horses that are used to pull a carriage etc, which is at the back and nearest the object being pulled
- phosphore — the morning star, especially Venus.
- phosphori — plural of phosphorus
- phronesis — wisdom in determining ends and the means of attaining them.
- phytosaur — any armored, semiaquatic reptile of the extinct order Phytosauria, of the Mesozoic Era, resembling the crocodile but unrelated, having the nostrils high on the snout and with well-developed hind limbs suggestive of bipedal ancestors.
- pirithoüs — a prince of the Lapiths, who accomplished many great deeds with his friend Theseus
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- poorhouse — (formerly) an institution in which paupers were maintained at public expense.
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- post horn — a straight or coiled copper or brass horn with no valves or slide, originally used to announce mail coaches.
- postcrash — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a crash
- posthorse — horse kept at an inn or posthouse for use by postriders or for hire to travellers
- prechoose — to choose in advance
- prechosen — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- prehensor — a part that grasps
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- preschool — of, relating to, or intended for a child between infancy and school age: new methods of preschool education.
- priorship — the office of a prior
- promachos — a defender or champion
- prop wash — propeller wash.
- prophasic — relating to the first stage of nuclear division
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- prosphora — antidoron.
- prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
- protheses — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- push over — shove to the ground