9-letter words containing s, h, o, r
- drop shot — (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball or shuttlecock so softly hit that it falls to the playing surface just after clearing the net.
- drop-ship — to ship (goods) as a drop shipment: The books will be drop-shipped by the publisher to your home.
- droshkies — Plural form of droshky.
- dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
- dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- dysphoric — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- earphones — (countable) Plural form of earphone.
- 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).
- ellsworth — Lincoln1880-1951; U.S. polar explorer
- enshrouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enshroud.
- escheator — a person appointed to deal with escheats
- esophoria — (ophthalmology) Inward deviation of the eye usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance.
- eurotrash — fashionable Europeans, traveling or living abroad, of a type regarded variously as pretentious, shallow, irresponsible, parasitic, etc.
- exosphere — The outermost region of a planet's atmosphere.
- exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
- farm shop — a shop that sells farm produce
- farmhouse — a house on a farm, especially the one used by the farmer and farmer's family.
- fashioner — a person who fashions, forms, or gives shape to anything.
- fire hose — a special heavy-duty hose for use in fighting destructive fires.
- firehorse — a horse used to pull a horse-drawn fire engine.
- firehouse — fire station.
- fish crow — a crow, Corvus ossifragus, of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, that feeds on fish, mollusks, etc.
- fish fork — a small fork having usually three tines, used for eating fish at table.
- flash rom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- flashover — Electricity. a disruptive discharge around or over the surface of a solid or liquid insulator.
- fleshworm — a flesh-eating worm, specifically the parasitic larva of any member of the genus Sarcophagidae
- floorshow — A set of performances held in a nightclub during the course of an evening.
- flourishy — containing flourishes; fancy; like a flourish in nature
- flushwork — decorative treatment of the surface of an outside wall with flints split to show their smooth black surface, combined with dressed stone to form patterns such as tracery or initials
- for shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
- for short — having little length; not long.
- forasmuch — Inasmuch, seeing (that).
- forehands — Plural form of forehand.
- foreheads — Plural form of forehead.
- forehocks — Plural form of forehock.
- foreshank — Anatomy. the part of the lower limb in humans between the knee and the ankle; leg.
- foresheet — the sheet of a headsail.
- foreshock — a relatively small earthquake that precedes a greater one by a few days or weeks and originates at or near the focus of the larger earthquake.
- foreshoot — The leading shoot.
- foreshore — the ground between the water's edge and cultivated land; land along the edge of a body of water.
- foreshows — Plural form of foreshow.
- foresight — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
- forsaketh — Archaic third-person singular form of forsake.
- forsythia — a shrub belonging to the genus Forsythia, of the olive family, native to China and southeastern Europe, species of which are cultivated for their showy yellow flowers, which blossom on the bare branches in early spring.
- fortieths — Plural form of fortieth.
- fox brush — the tail of a fox.
- freakshow — Alternative spelling of freak show.
- freeholds — Plural form of freehold.