9-letter words containing r, u, s, h
- scouthery — scorching
- scrunched — to crunch, crush, or crumple.
- scrunchie — an elastic band covered with gathered fabric, used to fasten the hair, as in a ponytail.
- sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- sepulchre — to place in a sepulcher; bury.
- serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- shamateur — a sportsperson who is officially an amateur but accepts payment
- share out — distribute fairly
- sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
- sheep-run — a large property for raising sheep
- shelburne — William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, William Petty Fizmaurice Lansdowne.
- shinguard — sport: protective pad for lower leg
- shoebrush — a brush used in polishing shoes.
- shore bug — any of various small, predaceous hemipterous insects of the family Saldidae, some of which are burrowers, commonly occurring along grassy shores of ponds, streams, brackish lakes, and seacoasts.
- short cut — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- short run — happening or presented for a short period of time: a short-run motion picture.
- short-cut — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- short-run — happening or presented for a short period of time: a short-run motion picture.
- shottsuru — a fish sauce used in Japanese cookery.
- showerful — abundant
- shrubbery — a planting of shrubs: He hit the croquet ball into the shrubbery.
- shrubland — land covered by shrubs
- shrubless — devoid of shrubs
- shrug off — to raise and contract (the shoulders), expressing indifference, disdain, etc.
- shuddered — to tremble with a sudden convulsive movement, as from horror, fear, or cold.
- shunpiker — a driver who takes a side road to avoid paying a turnpike toll
- shuttered — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- 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.
- 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.
- southport — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England: resort.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- southwark — a borough of Greater London, England, S of the Thames.
- squirarch — a person who believes in government by squires
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- struthers — a city in NE Ohio, near Youngstown.
- studhorse — a stallion kept for breeding.
- subahdary — the position or office of subadar
- subbranch — a subordinate branch or a branch of a branch, as of a bank, business, or the like.
- subchaser — submarine chaser.
- subhedral — (of mineral grains comprising igneous rocks) having a partial or incomplete crystal face or form.
- sugarbush — an evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, of the cashew family, native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having light yellow flowers in short, dense spikes and hairy, dark-red fruit.
- sulphured — treated or combined with sulphur