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

  • cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
  • crack house — a house or flat where drugs are dealt and used
  • crazy house — an asylum for people with psychiatric disorders
  • creophagous — flesh-eating or carnivorous
  • crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
  • curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
  • cushion cut — a variety of brilliant cut in which the girdle has the form of a square with rounded corners.
  • cushionless — without a cushion
  • customhouse — a building or office where customs or duties are paid and ships are cleared for entering or leaving
  • cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
  • cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
  • cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
  • dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
  • death house — the section of a prison containing an execution chamber and the cells in which persons condemned to die are housed in the days just before their execution
  • deinonychus — a genus of carnivorous dinosaur which existed in the early Cretaceous period, notable for the unusually large curved claws on the second toe of its feet
  • diadelphous — (of stamens) having united filaments so that they are arranged in two groups
  • dicephalous — having two heads
  • dichogamous — having the stamens and pistils maturing at different times, thereby preventing self-pollination, as a monoclinous flower (opposed to homogamous).
  • dichotomous — divided or dividing into two parts.
  • disc plough — a plough that cuts by means of revolving steel discs
  • discotheque — a nightclub for dancing to live or recorded music and often featuring sophisticated sound systems, elaborate lighting, and other effects.
  • disenshroud — to free from a shroud
  • dish it out — an open, relatively shallow container of pottery, glass, metal, wood, etc., used for various purposes, especially for holding or serving food.
  • dishonoured — Simple past tense and past participle of dishonour.
  • dishonourer — One who dishonours.
  • dope pusher — pusher (def 2).
  • doughtiness — steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.
  • dower house — the dwelling that is intended for or occupied by the widowed mother of the owner of an ancestral estate.
  • drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
  • duotheistic — Of or relating to duotheism.
  • eavestrough — gutter (def 3).
  • echoviruses — Plural form of echovirus.
  • embouchures — Plural form of embouchure.
  • endochylous — having water-storing cells
  • endophagous — relating to endophagy
  • enough said — understood
  • enshrouding — Present participle of enshroud.
  • epignathous — having a protruding upper jaw
  • epiphyllous — (of plants) growing on, or attached to, the leaf of another plant
  • eriophorous — relating to cotton grass
  • escarmouche — a skirmish
  • escutcheons — Plural form of escutcheon.
  • euryphagous — eating a wide variety of foods
  • exhumations — Plural form of exhumation.
  • field house — a building housing the dressing facilities, storage spaces, etc., used in connection with an athletic field.
  • fish course — A fish course is a part of a meal in which fish is served, usually before the entrée.
  • flesh wound — a wound that does not penetrate beyond the flesh; a slight or superficial wound.
  • flourisheth — Archaic third-person singular form of flourish.
  • flourishing — growing vigorously; thriving; prosperous: a flourishing little business.
  • flushometer — a device for flushing toilets that uses system pressure rather than gravity and automatically shuts off after a measured amount of water flow in order to conserve water.
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