9-letter words containing s, h, o, r
- bird shot — small-sized shot used for shooting birds.
- birdhouse — a small shelter or box for birds to nest in
- bishopric — A bishopric is the area for which a bishop is responsible, or the rank or office of being a bishop.
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- boschvark — a bush pig of S Africa
- box-fresh — unused or unspoiled; straight from the packaging
- boyshorts — women's underpants which resemble close-fitting shorts, sitting below the waist and stretching to the tops of the legs
- brewhouse — a brewery
- brighouse — a town in N England, in Calderdale unitary authority, West Yorkshire: machine tools, textiles, engineering. Pop: 32 360 (2001)
- broachers — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
- brush off — If someone brushes you off when you speak to them, they refuse to talk to you or be nice to you.
- brush-off — a refusal to talk or listen to someone; abrupt or final dismissal or rebuff.
- brushwood — Brushwood consists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.
- brushwork — An artist's brushwork is their way of using their brush to put paint on a canvas and the effect that this has in the picture.
- buhrstone — a hard tough rock containing silica, fossils, and cavities, formerly used as a grindstone
- burroughs — Edgar Rice. 1875–1950, US novelist, author of the Tarzan stories
- bush road — a rough road cut through forested land usually to serve a lumbering, mining, or other commercial company.
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
- chamfrons — Plural form of chamfron.
- chancrous — (medicine) Of the nature of a chancre; affected by chancre.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- charangos — Plural form of charango.
- charcoals — Plural form of charcoal.
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- charolais — a breed of large white beef cattle that originated in France
- charoseth — haroseth.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chatrooms — Plural form of chatroom.
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- chemisorb — to take up (a substance) by chemisorption
- cherokees — a member of an important tribe of North American Indians whose first known center was in the southern Alleghenies and who presently live in North Carolina and Oklahoma.
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- chlorides — Plural form of chloride.
- chlorites — Plural form of chlorite.
- chlorosis — a disorder, formerly common in adolescent girls, characterized by pale greenish-yellow skin, weakness, and palpitation and caused by insufficient iron in the body
- choirboys — Plural form of choirboy.
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- chordless — Lacking chords.
- chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- chorussed — Simple past tense and past participle of chorus.
- christoff — Boris. 1919–93, Bulgarian bass-baritone, noted esp for his performance in the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- churrasco — meat cooked over an open fire.
- cirrhosis — Cirrhosis or cirrhosis of the liver is a disease which destroys a person's liver and which can kill them. It is often caused by drinking too much alcohol.