9-letter words containing s, h, e, u
- deschutes — river in central and N Oreg., flowing from the Cascade Range north into the Columbia River: c. 250 mi (402 km)
- deshuffle — (signal processing) To restore shuffled data to its original ordered state.
- deutscher — Isaac, 1907–1967, English journalist and author, born in Poland.
- disinhume — to disinter.
- doghouses — Plural form of doghouse.
- dollhouse — a miniature house the scale of children's dolls.
- dosshouse — flophouse.
- dovehouse — A dovecote.
- drumheads — Plural form of drumhead.
- duchesses — the wife or widow of a duke.
- duckshove — to evade (responsibility or an issue)
- duotheism — Belief in and worship in two deities, usually framed as a god and goddess of roughly equal power.
- duotheist — A person who adheres to duotheism.
- dust head — a habitual user of angel dust.
- dustsheet — A large sheet which is draped over furniture as protection from dust.
- dyushambe — a former name of Dushanbe.
- echovirus — any of numerous retroviruses of the picornavirus group, some harmless and others associated with various human disorders, as aseptic meningitis.
- elkhounds — Plural form of elkhound.
- end house — the last house in a row, terrace, or street, from the viewpoint of the speaker
- enshrouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enshroud.
- enthusing — Present participle of enthuse.
- esophagus — The part of the alimentary canal that connects the throat to the stomach; the gullet. In humans and other vertebrates it is a muscular tube lined with mucous membrane.
- eucharist — The Eucharist is the Christian religious ceremony in which Christ's last meal with his disciples is celebrated by eating bread and drinking wine.
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- eunuchism — The condition of being a eunuch.
- euphausid — (zoology) Any member of the Euphausidae.
- euphemise — Alternative spelling of euphemize.
- euphemism — A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
- euphemist — One who uses euphemisms.
- euphenics — the study of biological improvement
- euphonies — Plural form of euphony.
- euphonism — the use of pleasant-sounding words or phrases
- euphonous — Alternative form of euphonious.
- euphrasia — eyebright
- euphrates — a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing south across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris, forming the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows to the head of the Persian Gulf: important in ancient times for the extensive irrigation of its valley (in Mesopotamia). Length: 3598 km (2235 miles)
- euphuisms — Plural form of euphuism.
- eurotrash — fashionable Europeans, traveling or living abroad, of a type regarded variously as pretentious, shallow, irresponsible, parasitic, etc.
- euthanase — (UK) Alternative form of euthanize.
- euthanise — (transitive, British) alternative spelling of euthanize.
- euthenics — The study of the effects of place on people.
- exhausted — Drained of one's physical or mental resources; very tired.
- exhauster — (obsolete) exhaust, exhaust pipe.
- farmhouse — a house on a farm, especially the one used by the farmer and farmer's family.
- feng shui — Feng shui is a Chinese art which is based on the belief that the way you arrange things within a building, and within the rooms of that building, can affect aspects of your life such as how happy and successful you are.
- firehouse — fire station.
- fish glue — a type of glue made by prolonged boiling of the connective tissue of fish
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- flashtube — electronic flash.
- flesh out — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- flophouse — a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.