9-letter words containing r, o, s, h
- shoreview — a town in E Minnesota.
- 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 con — any simple confidence game involving a relatively small amount of money.
- short cut — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- short for — having little length; not long.
- short leg — a fielding position on the leg side near the batsman's wicket
- short run — happening or presented for a short period of time: a short-run motion picture.
- short ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- short-cut — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- short-day — requiring a short photoperiod.
- short-run — happening or presented for a short period of time: a short-run motion picture.
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
- shortgown — a short-skirted dress worn by women doing housework
- shorthair — a domestic cat with a coat of short, thick hair; a cat of a shorthaired breed.
- 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.
- shorthorn — one of an English breed of red, white, or roan beef cattle, some having short horns and some naturally hornless.
- shortlist — a list of those people or items preferred or most likely to be chosen, as winnowed from a longer list of possibilities.
- shortness — having little length; not long.
- shortstop — Baseball. the position of the player covering the area of the infield between second and third base. a fielder who covers this position.
- shortwall — pertaining to a means of extracting coal when the working face is about a third the length of the longwall system and mining is done by a continuous cutter rather than by longwall machinery.
- shortwave — Electricity. a radio wave, shorter than that used in AM broadcasting, corresponding to frequencies of over 1600 kilohertz: used for long-distance reception or transmission.
- shotfirer — a person employed to detonate an explosive
- shotmaker — a sports player delivering good shots
- shotproof — able to withstand shot
- shottsuru — a fish sauce used in Japanese cookery.
- show card — an advertising placard or card.
- show girl — a woman who appears in the chorus of a show, nightclub act, etc.
- 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.
- showerful — abundant
- shroffage — the commission charged by a money dealer
- shrug off — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
- smasheroo — a popular success
- smotherer — a person or thing that smothers
- snowbrush — a brush for clearing snow (from a car, path, etc)
- solothurn — a city in NW Switzerland, on the Aar River: capital of canton of Solothurn.
- somewhere — in or at some place not specified, determined, or known: They live somewhere in Michigan.
- sonograph — an instrument that produces a graphic representation of sound.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- sophomore — a student in the second year of high school or college.
- sore shin — a disease of plant seedlings, characterized by stem cankers that girdle the stem near the soil line, caused by any of several fungi, especially Rhizoctonia solani.
- sour mash — a blended grain mash used in the distilling of some whiskeys, consisting of new mash and a portion of mash from a preceding run and yielding a high rate of lactic acid.
- sourdough — leaven, especially fermented dough retained from one baking and used, rather than fresh yeast, to start the next.
- sourishly — in a sourish manner
- southbury — a town in S Connecticut.
- southerly — a wind that blows from the south.