10-letter words containing s, e, h, u
- node house — a prefabricated shelter used by welders during the construction of an oil rig
- nordhausen — a city in central Germany: site of a former Nazi concentration camp.
- numbfishes — Plural form of numbfish.
- nursehound — a species of European dogfish, Scyliorrhinus caniculus
- nuthatches — Plural form of nuthatch.
- oast house — a building containing kilns for drying hops, usually having a conical or pyramidal roof
- oast-house — oast.
- oasthouses — Plural form of oasthouse.
- oberhausen — a city in W Germany, in the lower Ruhr valley.
- octopusher — a person who plays octopush
- oesophagus — (anatomy) The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.
- one's hour — a time of success, fame, etc
- open house — a party or reception during which anyone who wishes may visit to share in a celebration, meet a special guest, etc.
- otherguess — of another kind; different.
- out-hustle — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
- out-scheme — a plan, design, or program of action to be followed; project.
- outmatches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmatch.
- outreaches — Plural form of outreach.
- outshouted — Simple past tense and past participle of outshout.
- outstretch — to stretch forth; extend: to outstretch one's hand in welcome.
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- overthrust — a thrust fault with a low dip and a large slip.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- pen pusher — pencil pusher.
- pen-pusher — pencil pusher.
- pepperbush — sweet pepperbush.
- pest house — a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
- phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
- phosphuret — a phosphate
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pious hope — a wish or desire that is unlikely to be fulfilled
- play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- plushiness — the condition of being plush
- pole house — a timber house built on a steep section and supported by heavy debarked logs in long piles
- polyphemus — a Cyclops who was blinded by Odysseus.
- post house — a house or inn keeping post horses.
- powerhouse — Electricity. a generating station.
- prepublish — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- psyched up — psychologically prepared
- publishers — a publishing company
- pump house — a building where pumps and other pumping equipment have been installed
- punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.
- punishment — the act of punishing.
- pursership — the position of purser
- push ahead — move sth forward
- push aside — shove to one side