9-letter words containing s, h, o, e
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- crotchets — Plural form of crotchet.
- ctesiphon — an ancient city on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) above Babylon. First mentioned in 221 bc, it was destroyed in the 7th and 8th centuries ad
- cushioned — provided with cushions
- cushionet — a small cushion
- cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
- dalhousie — 9th Earl of, title of George Ramsay. 1770–1838, British general; governor of the British colonies in Canada (1819–28)
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- deadhouse — a mortuary
- debouches — to march out from a narrow or confined place into open country, as a body of troops: The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
- deck shoe — Deck shoes are flat casual shoes made of canvas or leather.
- deckhouse — a houselike cabin on the deck of a ship
- demijohns — Plural form of demijohn.
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
- dishonest — not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.
- dishtowel — a towel for drying dishes.
- disposeth — Archaic third-person singular form of dispose.
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- dogfishes — Plural form of dogfish.
- doghouses — Plural form of doghouse.
- dogshores — the pieces of timber used to prop up a boat prior to its launch
- dollhouse — a miniature house the scale of children's dolls.
- dolmetsch — Arnold. 1858–1940, British musician, born in France. He contributed greatly to the revival of interest in early music and instruments
- dopeheads — Plural form of dopehead.
- dopesheet — a bulletin or list including the names of entries in various horse races, and including information on each entry, as the name, jockey, and past performances.
- dosshouse — flophouse.
- dovehouse — A dovecote.
- drag shoe — a type of braking device on a vehicle
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- droshkies — Plural form of droshky.
- 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.
- earphones — (countable) Plural form of earphone.
- east goth — an Ostrogoth.
- echinoids — Plural form of echinoid.
- echovirus — any of numerous retroviruses of the picornavirus group, some harmless and others associated with various human disorders, as aseptic meningitis.
- ecosphere — Also called physiological atmosphere. the part of the atmosphere in which it is possible to breathe normally without aid: the portion of the troposphere from sea level to an altitude of about 13,000 feet (4000 meters).
- egotheism — The deification of one's own self.
- eightsome — A group of eight persons or things, one more than a sevensome and one less than a ninesome.
- elkhounds — Plural form of elkhound.
- ellsworth — Lincoln1880-1951; U.S. polar explorer
- encheason — a reason
- 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.
- escheator — a person appointed to deal with escheats
- escovitch — Alternative form of escoveitch.
- 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.