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11-letter words containing s, h, o, u

  • brush broom — Northeastern U.S. a whisk broom.
  • brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
  • brushstroke — Brushstrokes are the marks made on a surface by a painter's brush.
  • bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  • buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
  • bumbershoot — an umbrella
  • bush clover — any of several plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Lespedeza, of the legume family, having pinnately trifoliate leaves and heads of pink, purple, cream, or white flowers.
  • bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
  • bushhogging — to clear (land) by using a bush hog.
  • cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
  • cactus moth — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, native to South America and introduced into Australia to control prickly pear cactus, on which the larvae feed.
  • calico bush — mountain laurel
  • calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
  • cardophagus — a donkey
  • carpophorus — an epithet of both Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, meaning “fruit-bearer.”.
  • champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
  • chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
  • chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
  • cheliferous — bearing chelae
  • chiaroscuro — Chiaroscuro is the use of light and shade in a picture, or the effect produced by light and shade in a place.
  • chirurgeons — Plural form of chirurgeon.
  • chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
  • chorus frog — any of several small North American frogs of the genus Pseudacris, having a loud call commonly heard in the early spring.
  • chorus girl — A chorus girl is a young woman who sings or dances as part of a group in a show or film.
  • chorus line — the group of dancers who perform routines in a musical
  • chou pastry — cream puff paste.
  • chucklesome — amusing; full of humour
  • chum salmon — a large salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) with pale flesh, found in the N Pacific
  • churchgoers — a person who goes to church, especially habitually.
  • chyliferous — containing chyle
  • chymiferous — containing chyme
  • cladanthous — pleurocarpous.
  • clean house — to clean and put a home in order
  • closehauled — having the sails adjusted for heading as nearly as possible into the wind
  • coach house — a building in which a coach is kept
  • coconut shy — a fairground stall in which balls are thrown to knock coconuts off stands
  • coffeehouse — an establishment that sells coffee and usually other refreshments and that commonly serves as an informal club for its regular customers
  • conchylious — Archaic form of conchylaceous.
  • copublisher — a publisher that publishes a work in conjunction with another publisher
  • cornhuskers — Plural form of cornhusker.
  • cornhusking — the removal of the husk from corn
  • cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
  • couch grass — a grass, Agropyron repens, with a yellowish-white creeping underground stem by which it spreads quickly: a troublesome weed
  • couch-grass — any of various grasses, especially Agropyron repens, known chiefly as troublesome weeds and characterized by creeping rootstocks that spread rapidly.
  • cough sweet — a lozenge to relieve a cough
  • cough syrup — Cough syrup is a liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
  • countershot — a sequence of frames seen from the perspective of the subject of the previous shot
  • courthouses — Plural form of courthouse.
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