9-letter words containing s, h, e, u
- flushable — (of a toilet) That has a flushing mechanism.
- flushness — a fresh growth, as of shoots and leaves.
- fresh out — newly short of sth
- fresh-run — (of fish) newly migrated upstream from the sea, esp to spawn
- fun house — (in an amusement park) a building that is specially constructed and has devices for surprising and amusing patrons walking through.
- furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- furbisher — One who furbishes; especially, a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.
- furbishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of furbish.
- furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- furnisher — One who furnishes.
- furnishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of furnish.
- gatehouse — a house at or over a gate, used as a gatekeeper's quarters, fortification, etc.
- gauchesco — of or relating to gauchos
- goulashes — Plural form of goulash.
- guideship — the position of a guide
- gumshield — a plate or strip of soft waxy substance used by boxers to protect the teeth and gums
- gushiness — The property of being gushy.
- gütersloh — a town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Pop: 95 928 (2003 est)
- half-used — previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car.
- harangues — Plural form of harangue.
- harquebus — any of several small-caliber long guns operated by a matchlock or wheel-lock mechanism, dating from about 1400.
- hashhouse — (US colloquial) A cheap diner or eating-house.
- hastilude — A medieval martial game.
- haushofer — Karl, 1860–1946, German geographer and general: political adviser to Hitler.
- hazelnuts — Plural form of hazelnut.
- head smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by a dark-brown, powdery mass of spores replacing the affected seed heads, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Sorosporium, Sphacelotheca, and Ustilago.
- heat slug — (hardware, processor) A metal plate that helps dissipate heat away from the silicon core of a processor to the packaging or heat-sink.
- heinously — hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense.
- heisenbug — (jargon) /hi:'zen-buhg/ (From Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics) A bug that disappears or alters its behaviour when one attempts to probe or isolate it. (This usage is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes alters a program's operating environment enough that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of uninitialised memory, behaves quite differently.) In C, nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialised auto variables, fandango on core phenomena (especially corruption of the malloc arena) or errors that smash the stack. Opposite: Bohr bug. See also mandelbug, schroedinbug.
- helvetius — Claude Adrien [klawd ey-dree-uh n;; French klohd a-dree-ahn] /klɔd ˈeɪ dri ən;; French kloʊd a driˈɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1715–71, French philosopher.
- hen-house — a shelter for poultry.
- henequens — Plural form of henequen.
- henhouses — Plural form of henhouse.
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- herodotus — 484?–425? b.c, Greek historian.
- heucheras — Plural form of heuchera.
- heuretics — the use of logic
- heuristic — serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.
- hideously — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hilversum — a city in central Netherlands.
- hirsuties — Hirsutism.
- hot issue — a hot issue is a shares issue which sells at more than the public offer price on the first day of trading
- hot sauce — any of several highly spiced, pungent condiments, especially one containing some type of pepper or chili.
- hothoused — (of a child) having undergone hothousing
- hothouses — Plural form of hothouse.
- house red — a red wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
- house-sit — to take care of a house or residence while the owner or occupant is temporarily away, especially by living in it.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- houseboys — Plural form of houseboy.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.