9-letter words containing s, h, o, u
- dishclout — a cloth for use in washing dishes; dishrag.
- dishonour — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- dishumour — to upset or offend
- doghouses — Plural form of doghouse.
- dollhouse — a miniature house the scale of children's dolls.
- dosshouse — flophouse.
- doughboys — Informal. an American infantryman, especially in World War I.
- doughnuts — Plural form of doughnut.
- doujinshi — (anime, manga, video games) A fan-produced work, especially a manga, anime, or video game.
- dovehouse — A dovecote.
- duathlons — Plural form of duathlon.
- duckshove — to evade (responsibility or an issue)
- dukhobors — a pacifistic, nonritualistic, mystical religious sect that separated (1785) from the Eastern Orthodox Church: in the 1890s, many members emigrated to W Canada
- dumb show — a part of a dramatic representation given in pantomime, common in early English drama.
- dunk shot — a shot in which a player near the basket jumps with the ball and thrusts it through the basket with one hand or both hands held above the rim. See also slam dunk (def 1).
- duotheism — Belief in and worship in two deities, usually framed as a god and goddess of roughly equal power.
- duotheist — A person who adheres to duotheism.
- dust shot — the smallest size of shot for use in a shotgun.
- dustcloth — a soft, absorbent cloth used for dusting.
- echovirus — any of numerous retroviruses of the picornavirus group, some harmless and others associated with various human disorders, as aseptic meningitis.
- elkhounds — Plural form of elkhound.
- end house — the last house in a row, terrace, or street, from the viewpoint of the speaker
- enshrouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enshroud.
- esophagus — The part of the alimentary canal that connects the throat to the stomach; the gullet. In humans and other vertebrates it is a muscular tube lined with mucous membrane.
- eulachons — Plural form of eulachon.
- euphonies — Plural form of euphony.
- euphonism — the use of pleasant-sounding words or phrases
- euphonous — Alternative form of euphonious.
- eurotrash — fashionable Europeans, traveling or living abroad, of a type regarded variously as pretentious, shallow, irresponsible, parasitic, etc.
- farmhouse — a house on a farm, especially the one used by the farmer and farmer's family.
- firehouse — fire station.
- fishpound — a submerged net used in commercial fishing for capturing fish.
- flesh out — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- flophouse — a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.
- flourishy — containing flourishes; fancy; like a flourish in nature
- flush out — run liquid through to clean
- 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
- forasmuch — Inasmuch, seeing (that).
- foul shot — a throw from the foul line, given a player after a foul has been called against an opponent.
- fox brush — the tail of a fox.
- foxhounds — Plural form of foxhound.
- fresh out — newly short of sth
- fun house — (in an amusement park) a building that is specially constructed and has devices for surprising and amusing patrons walking through.
- furloughs — Plural form of furlough.
- gatehouse — a house at or over a gate, used as a gatekeeper's quarters, fortification, etc.
- gauchesco — of or relating to gauchos
- ghost gum — a eucalyptus tree with white trunk and branches
- gold rush — a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.
- goulashes — Plural form of goulash.
- guarulhos — a city in SE Brazil, NE of São Paulo.