9-letter words containing s, h, o, r
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
- cockhorse — rocking horse
- codeshare — (aviation) Agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
- coheiress — a female coheir
- copperish — resembling copper
- corfhouse — a shed used for curing salmon and storing nets
- cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
- cornhouse — a corncrib.
- cornhusks — Plural form of cornhusk.
- corniches — Plural form of corniche.
- coronachs — Plural form of coronach.
- coshering — Present participle of cosher.
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- cothurnus — the buskin worn in ancient Greek tragedy
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- cow horse — cow pony.
- cow shark — any large primitive shark, esp Hexanchus griseum, of the family Hexanchidae of warm and temperate waters
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crash-hot — extremely impressive
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- cromlechs — Plural form of cromlech.
- crossed-h — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10 −34 joule seconds
- crossfish — a starfish
- crosshair — either of the two fine mutually perpendicular lines or wires that cross in the focal plane of a theodolite, gunsight, or other optical instrument and are used to define the line of sight
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- crotchets — Plural form of crotchet.
- crumhorns — Plural form of crumhorn.
- cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
- cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
- darkhorse — Having the character of a dark horse.
- dashboard — The dashboard in a car is the panel facing the driver's seat where most of the instruments and switches are.
- 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.
- dichroism — a property of a uniaxial crystal, such as tourmaline, of showing a perceptible difference in colour when viewed along two different axes in transmitted white light
- dirhinous — having paired nostrils.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- dishonors — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dishonor.
- dishonour — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- dishumour — to upset or offend
- disthrone — (obsolete, transitive) To dethrone; to remove from the throne.
- dogshores — the pieces of timber used to prop up a boat prior to its launch
- donorship — a person who gives or donates.
- drag shoe — a type of braking device on a vehicle
- drag show — a performance by drag artists
- dragonish — Having the characteristics of a dragon.
- draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dronishly — in a droning manner