9-letter words containing s, c, h, o
- escovitch — Alternative form of escoveitch.
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- falchions — Plural form of falchion.
- fish crow — a crow, Corvus ossifragus, of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, that feeds on fish, mollusks, etc.
- forasmuch — Inasmuch, seeing (that).
- forehocks — Plural form of forehock.
- foreshock — a relatively small earthquake that precedes a greater one by a few days or weeks and originates at or near the focus of the larger earthquake.
- gauchesco — of or relating to gauchos
- ghost car — an unmarked police car
- gothicism — conformity or devotion to the gothic style in the arts.
- gottsched — Johann Christoph. 1700–66, German critic, dramatist, and translator
- grieshoch — a bed of embers, especially of a peat or moss fire.
- harmonics — Music. overtone (def 1).
- hay shock — a haycock.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- headstock — the part of a machine containing or directly supporting the moving or working parts, as the assembly supporting and driving the live spindle in a lathe.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- hectorism — the character or actions of a hector
- helicoids — Plural form of helicoid.
- hemocoels — Plural form of hemocoel.
- hemocytes — Plural form of hemocyte.
- hiccoughs — Plural form of hiccough.
- hickories — Plural form of hickory.
- hippocras — an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
- hircinous — (rare) Of, or pertaining to goats; hircine.
- hircosity — the quality of being like a goat
- hockshops — (US, rare) Plural form of hockshop.
- hodoscope — any device for tracing the path of a charged particle, esp a particle found in cosmic rays
- hog score — a line at each end of the rink, parallel to the foot score and usually 7 yards (6.4 meters) in advance of the tee.
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- homeslice — Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.).
- homicides — Plural form of homicide.
- hon. sec. — Honorary Secretary
- hopscotch — a children's game in which a player tosses or kicks a small flat stone, beanbag, or other object into one of several numbered sections of a diagram marked on the pavement or ground and then hops on one foot over the lines from section to section and picks up the stone or object, usually while standing on one foot in an adjacent section.
- horoscope — a diagram of the heavens, showing the relative position of planets and the signs of the zodiac, for use in calculating births, foretelling events in a person's life, etc.
- horoscopy — Archaic. the casting or taking of horoscopes.
- horseback — the back of a horse.
- horsecars — Plural form of horsecar.
- horsecart — A cart drawn by a horse.
- horserace — Alternative spelling of horse race.
- hose-cock — a threaded exterior faucet, as for attaching a garden hose.
- hot sauce — any of several highly spiced, pungent condiments, especially one containing some type of pepper or chili.
- hotchkiss — Hazel, Wightman, Hazel Hotchkiss.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- housecats — Plural form of housecat.
- housecoat — a woman's robe or dresslike garment in various lengths, for casual wear about the house.
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hypnotics — Plural form of hypnotic.